RPV City Council to Examine Preserve Trail Use Issues

The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council will once again look at trail use in the Palos Verdes Nature Preserve at its meeting Tuesday night.

City staff is recommending that council approve a Volunteer Trail Patrol Program to enforce city regulations in the preserve. Members of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy and others have been concerned about damage to the preserve, inflicted by extreme downhill mountain bike speed, and hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers who wander off designated trails, in addition to poor trail etiquette between the different user groups.

A plan of action being put to City Council Tuesday calls for more signs that list the rules of the preserve, updated trail markers that bear a list of the designated uses for each segment of trail, an "Adopt A Trail" program and the use of a Volunteer Trail Patrol Program, among others.

For more details on this agenda item, visit the city's website.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fred Hesse Jr. Community Park. Here is the full agenda.

Here is the webpage for viewing the live broadcast or watching video of previous council meetings.