A.) The City has a Wild Bird Protection Ordinance that prohibits anyone from shooting, trapping, taking or injuring any wild bird, bird nest or egg within the City. The City has implemented a peafowl trap and removal program for all areas of the City, except within the boundaries of the Dapplegray Lanes and Strawberry Lane homeowners associations. If you have any questions obtaining a Peafowl Removal Permit or to obtain peafowl information, please contact City Hall at (310) 377-1577

A.) Call City Hall, (310) 377-1577 and we can tell you about the schedule of the classes and help get you registered. Information about our Recreation Programs is also available in the quarterly Community Activities Newsletter. Classes are offered in Winter (January), Spring (April), Summer (June), and Fall (September) sessions.

Most City street trees are pruned on a 4 or 5-year interval. Residents can request permission, in writing, to pay for more frequent prunings or the removal and replacement of a City street tree. Removal requests are reviewed and approved by the Park and Activities Commission. For more information about the City’s street tree maintenance program or view restoration policy, please contact Mike Goldsmith at (310) 378-4504.

Sports fields are provided in Highridge Park (2 soccer fields and 1 softball field) and Howlett Park (3 baseball fields which convert into 2 soccer fields during the Fall months) and available to the public on a first-come, first-served basis when not in use by one of the local youth sports organizations or reserved for a special event. The City’s annually issues sports field permits to AYSO Soccer, Silver Spur Little League, Peninsula Pony-Colt Baseball League, and Palos Verdes Peninsula Girls Softball League during the normal practice and league seasons for each sport. During the weeks between sports seasons, the City’s Maintenance Division implements turf improvement measures, which requires periodically closing the sports fields from public use. Although there are limited opportunities, individuals and organizations can reserve a sports field for a one-day special event. Contact Daniel A-Haja, for sports field rental fees, insurance coverage requirements, and permit application information at (310) 377-1577 ext. 110.

A.) The City has a first-come, first-served use policy for all parks except Ernie Howlett Park. Groups of 20 up to a maximum of 100 must obtain an Ernie Howlett Park Permit Application to hold a function at Ernie Howlett Park. A clean-up deposit of $50 must be submitted with the permit application along with applicable park use fee (20 to 30 persons @ $25; 31 - 50 persons @ $45; and 51 - 100 persons @ $65). A small kitchen can also be rented at Ernie Howlett Park for a $40 use fee. Contact the RHE Tennis Club office at Ernie Howlett Park at (310) 541-4585 to schedule your group’s function.

A.) City parks are open from 7:30 a.m. to dusk.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to:

• Establish guidelines for the permanent naming of City properties and facilities after former elected and appointed City officials or community leaders; and 
• Establish the application and approval procedures for the consideration of requests to name a public property or facility after a former City official or community leader. 

Objective

The naming of a City property, facility, or a portion of a property or facility, shall honor, recognize, memorialize, and/or commemorate in perpetuity except as provided in Section 5, the service and contributions that a former City official or community leader provided the community. 

Acceptance Criteria

The City shall use the following criteria in the evaluation of City property or facility naming requests: 

• Commemorates a living or deceased former City official or community leader who has contributed significantly to the City while he/she was a resident of the City of Rolling Hills Estates; 
• The person identified to have a City property or facility to be named after is no longer serving on a City Subcommittee, Committee, Commission, or Council;
• There is a nexus or relationship between the person requested to be named and the City property or facility; and  Only the full name or last name of the person being recognized shall be used in the naming of a City property or facility. 

Assessment and Approval Process

The assessment and approval process shall be as follows: 

• A City Property or Facility Naming Application shall be reviewed by the Park and Activities Commission. If the Commission is satisfied with that the application meets the City’s criteria, a recommendation for approval will be forwarded to City Council for final approval.
• The application shall indicate:

1. The number of years the person requested to be named has lived in the City;
2. The dates that the person served on City Subcommittees, Committees, Commissions, and/or Council and their office(s) and/or position(s) on each or a detailed description of the community leader’s record of community involvement;
3. The nexus or relationship of the person named in the application to the City property or facility under consideration;
4. Acknowledgement that in the event that the City determines that a public property or facility is required to be demolished, sold, or transferred, the City shall not be required to name a different property or facility after the former City official; and
5. Acknowledgement that at any time that an individual, who has had a City property or facility named for them, whose actions would reflect negatively on the City could be cause for the City to re-name the City property or facility named for the individual. 

• At the discretion of City Council, a fee may be requested from the applicant for the cost of producing and installing property signage. 

CITY PROPERTY AND FACILITY NAMING POLICY