We keep being reminded

As blog readers will know, UCLA spent $80 million to buy a defunct Catholic college campus in Palos Verdes. It is largely inaccessible by public transit and, when the college function, served only a few hundred students. But it was presented to the Regents as a way to expand enrollment. And then, nearby ground began to slide.

From the LA Times: Rancho Palos Verdes has moved forward with plans to permanently ban new construction across 715 acres of land that has been plagued by dramatic and destructive landslide movement over the last two years. City council members on Tuesday night voted unanimously to prohibit almost all new development, including home additions, throughout the landslide zone, which encompasses approximately 400 homes and 130 vacant, privately owned lots across three neighborhoods...

Criticism and concern have... come from landowners sitting on undeveloped lots, or from homeowners who were recently included in the designated landslide zone. That designation came after geologists confirmed that the recent movement had expanded past historic boundaries...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-06/rancho-palos-verdes-development-ban-landslide-zone.

So the question remains: What is UCLA going to do with this property?