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Closer to home · Updated October 3, 2026

Local stations serving the Palisades

These stations reduce voltage and distribute electricity from the grid. They do not generate power. Select a location to see it on the same map.

Above ground to below ground. Red-ringed markers show where the Royal–Monte Grande 1 Line changes between overhead conductor and underground cable: above the Highlands, where it comes off its last pole and runs about 1.3 miles underground into DS-99, and at DS-122, where it leaves the station underground and climbs its first pole.

Vaults. Small blue-ringed circles mark where the recorded cables split or meet: on Sunset at Via de la Paz beside DS-29, on Sunset east of Temescal Canyon Road, on Sunset about 650 feet west of Temescal Canyon Road where the cable is recorded as two parallel runs between two vaults, on Sunset at the top of Marquez Avenue where the cable turns the corner without branching, beside the Marquez pole-top, and on the west side of Palisades Drive about 300 feet north of Sunset, where the record loops the Highlands cable off the road and back through a vault with no branch. Underground cable is spliced and switched in vaults, so each junction marks one; the 2017 Coastal Commission records confirm vaults at both pole-tops, and the capacity map shows the junctions, not the vault structures themselves.

Overhead and underground routes. Solid lines follow 34.5 kV routes in LADWP’s public capacity map, retrieved October 3, 2026: red where the map records overhead conductor, blue where it records underground cable. Arrows appear only where a source gives the direction of supply: LADWP’s statements for the Royal line and the 2013–2014 record for Olympic → DS-29. Reported feeder types at each site (September 23 and 25, 2026) are kept in the station details. The 2017 permits also describe underground vaults, conduits and cable connections at the pole-top installations. Underground cable at a station does not mean its entire incoming line is underground, and a recorded route is not confirmation that a circuit is energized.

CTN background coverage: Sue Pascoe’s DWP Poles on Sunset Raise Ire (republished January 27, 2023); DWP Comes Through for Pacific Palisades—15 Years Late (March 31, 2026); and Second Pole-Top Distribution Station Disputed by Some Residents (August 21, 2026). Subscription may be required.

LADWP’s March 2025 rebuilding document lists DS-29, DS-99, PTDS-195 and PTDS-198 as the Palisades’ distributing stations. It proposes transferring the two pole-top stations’ loads to an upgraded DS-29; that plan is not confirmation that the transfer or removal has happened.

Nearby DS-66 in Brentwood is also marked. LADWP’s capacity map records several parallel underground 34.5 kV cables from Olympic into Brentwood: DS-66 has its own, and the DS-29 cables continue past it along San Vicente and Sunset. The record does not name which cable serves which station. LADWP’s March 26, 2026 plan identifies a new 34.5 kV connection between DS-66 and DS-29; use the separate planned-connection button to follow its approximate corridor along Sunset, Allenford / 26th Street and San Vicente. The March 2026 source distinguishes designed and constructed sections; it does not confirm an energized connection. The underground work along Sunset toward Chautauqua is this project: 12.5 miles of new underground in the Sunset corridor, made up of the 6.0-mile 34.5 kV trunk from DS-66 to DS-29, a 3.9-mile 12 kV mainline east from DS-29 to Allenford Avenue and a 2.6-mile 12 kV mainline west from DS-29 to Palisades Drive. The plan has Sunset Boulevard construction running now through June 2027, DS-29 rebuilt 2028 through 2031, and up to 45 miles of neighborhood undergrounding 2027 through 2030; the two pole-top stations go away once DS-29 is upgraded. Dates are LADWP planning targets. The “All 34.5 kV lines nearby” button adds every 34.5 kV line the capacity map records in the area, for context.

Station pins are approximate address or intersection locations. DS-29 and DS-99 use the City of Los Angeles locator; both pole-top pins sit at the 34.5 kV risers recorded in LADWP’s capacity map, corrected October 3, 2026 against the 2017 Coastal Commission records (the Marquez pin had been about 450 m too far west); Olympic uses Esri address geocoding of LADWP’s published address, checked September 24, 2026; DS-122 uses its OpenStreetMap station outline, checked October 3, 2026. The Highlands and the two Sunset pole-top locations were added September 23, 2026. Pins show locations, not live operating status or exact service boundaries.

Street lighting · Added October 3, 2026

Street lights: who owns them and how a street gets them

Street lights are not part of LADWP’s system. The City’s Bureau of Street Lighting builds and maintains them, and the property owners on each lit street pay for them through an assessment on the County tax bill. A street has lights only if its owners once formed a lighting district; a street without lights, such as parts of Radcliffe Avenue, never did. LADWP’s undergrounding and rebuilding plans do not add street lights.

On the map. The Street lights button adds every light in the Bureau’s inventory for the Palisades area, 2,392 records retrieved October 3, 2026. Select a light to see a picture of its post design, a City photo for the decorative designs and the Bureau’s standard-plan drawing for City Design poles, plus its lamp type and wattage, its status and a link to the City’s record for that pole. The City publishes a photo for each standard pole family as well, so nearly every light now shows a picture. The handsome lights on Sunset around Palisades Village are in the inventory as 23 “15.5-foot ELA dual-arm custom poles,” Caruso’s own design, maintained privately rather than by the Bureau, so they appear as gray dots; select one for the City’s photo. The City’s historic-designs map covers only decorative and historic designs, grouped by family, not the standard concrete and metal poles that light most streets. Gray dots are lights the Bureau does not maintain. The inventory does not confirm that a pole survived the January 2025 fire or that a light is working; the Bureau’s post-fire work so far is repair of existing lights, prioritizing schools, occupied homes and major roads.

Getting lights on a street that has none. The Bureau’s petition for a modern street lighting system covers residential streets “where street lighting does not exist.” Owners representing at least 70 percent of the street’s frontage sign; questionnaires confirm support; then every affected owner receives a Proposition 218 ballot on the assessment. The form’s estimates: about $5,000 per 50 feet of frontage one time, plus about $95 per property per year for maintenance and power. Ornamental systems run roughly $7,500 to $10,000 per 50 feet and about $130 per year. Contact: bsl.streetlighting@lacity.org, Community Impact Division, 1149 S. Broadway, Suite 200.

If your street only had a light on a DWP pole. A luminaire hung on a wood utility pole is either a Bureau fixture on a shared pole or an LADWP-owned one. Check the Street Lights view on your block: an amber dot where the pole light stood means it is a Bureau light and its post-fire repair program covers restoring it; no dot means it was never a Bureau light and no one is obliged to replace it. When LADWP removes the poles for undergrounding, any light on them goes too, and neither LADWP’s March 2026 plan nor the Bureau’s recovery work provides replacements, so an overhead-only block ends up with no lights unless its owners act. The options: petition for a modern system at about $5,000 per 50 feet of frontage, roughly $5,000 to $6,000 for a typical Alphabet lot, plus about $95 a year; petition for an ornamental system at about $7,500 to $10,000 per 50 feet plus about $130 a year; petition by block rather than by whole street, since the form is written “between X and Y”; ask the Council office and the Bureau whether lights lost with the poles qualify for fire-recovery funding, the one route that might cost owners nothing and the one no one has answered; or rely on private lighting on each lot, with no City maintenance and no assessment. The 1913 Act lets the one-time assessment be spread over years on the County tax bill; confirm the current terms with the Bureau. The Bureau’s spring 2026 citywide Prop 218 ballot to raise the existing lighting assessment failed: of 166,789 ballots returned by June 2, 2026, the weighted tally was 79 percent opposed, and the Council abandoned the proposed $111.8 million district on June 26, 2026 (Council File 26-0331). The existing assessment and the estimates above stand, and the Bureau’s stated repair time for service requests remains about a year.

Modeled lights for streets that have none. Using the City’s official street centerlines, every public street in 90272 with no light in the inventory along it gets hollow amber circles about 150 feet apart, staggered at the property lines, the City and County spacing for a local residential street. Select one for the street’s count, its length and a rough one-time assessment at the Bureau’s $5,000 per 50 feet of frontage, both sides. The modeled pole is the Bureau’s standard plan CD 851, a 26-foot concrete pole, with the 31-foot metal CD 959 as the alternative, both with LED luminaires. These are estimates to size a petition, not a Bureau design; private and unidentified streets are left out.

Prices are the Bureau of Street Lighting’s petition-form estimates (revised January 2024), assessed on the County tax bill and spreadable over years under the 1913 Act; the Bureau sets the final figure for each district after design.

What the designs look like. City photos of the pole designs that stand in the Palisades today, with how many of each the Bureau’s inventory lists here. A petition for a new system chooses between the two modern standards (CD 851 or CD 959) at the modern price, or an ornamental post at the higher price; the Bureau matches an existing ornamental street where it can.

Modern, standard arm poles (about $5,000 per 50 ft)

Ornamental, post-top lanterns (about $7,500–10,000 per 50 ft)

Photos: Bureau of Street Lighting post-design images. Counts are poles of that family in the City inventory within this map’s Palisades extent; click any light in the Street Lights view for its own design, lamp and record.

Design standard. The City treats a local street as 40 feet wide, lit to 0.4 footcandles with a 4-to-1 uniformity ratio, using a 26-foot concrete pole or a 31-foot metal pole in residential areas, placed at property lines where possible and matching the neighboring system when one with more than ten poles exists. The City standard does not print a single spacing figure; the County guideline for the same lighting level, often used as the rule of thumb, is staggered poles 130 to 170 feet apart. The Village streetscape on Sunset between Swarthmore and Monument, with new street lights, sidewalks and trees, is privately funded by Caruso under a 2016 commitment and approved by the Board of Public Works; it is a one-off, not a program for residential streets.