20,026 square feet · cul-de-sac · Marquez Knolls
Twenty thousand surveyed square feet at the quiet end of a Marquez Knolls cul-de-sac — room for an estate-scale home, pool and ADU on one of the larger residential lots in the neighborhood. Cleared after the Palisades Fire, surveyed on the ground, and already drawn as a conceptual 9,000 square-foot plan. Every figure on this page names where it comes from.
Offered at$2,000,000
The site today
At 20,026 square feet the lot is three to four times the 5,200–6,500 square-foot lots typical of the Palisades Alphabet Streets, and it sits on a cul-de-sac with no through traffic. The prior residence was lost in the January 2025 Palisades Fire. The lot has been cleared to the pad, and the architectural and boundary survey was taken on the ground in February 2025. The aerial outline in the set is indicative only — the survey is the boundary.
What has been drawn
Schumetta, Inc. prepared a 22-sheet conceptual plan set for the seller (revision 1, client review, 10 March 2026). It is a head start on design, not an entitlement: nothing here has been submitted to or approved by the City of Los Angeles, and a buyer should treat every number as a starting point for their own architect.
Front 26′-4″ against 25′ required; rear 33′ against 25′; sides 5′-6″ west and 9′-6″ east against 5′. Type V-B construction, fully sprinklered, R-3/U occupancy, designed to the 2023 California Building Code with Los Angeles County amendments.
Designer Schumetta, Inc.; contractor Callahan Construction, Malibu; structural Vlachos Engineering, Moorpark; civil Geoworks Engineering & Surveying, Simi Valley. Their involvement does not transfer with the land — confirm with each before relying on the drawings.
Visualizations of the conceptual set. Backgrounds, landscaping and views in them are illustrative and are not photographs of the site or its outlook.
The file
Each entry says, in plain language, why it matters. If it is listed, it is in the data room and has been read; what is still outstanding is named in the next section rather than implied.
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Not yet settled
Two figures are in circulation, and both are named here. The February 2025 survey by Land & Air Surveying states a gross parcel area of 20,026 square feet (0.46 acres). The Los Angeles County Assessor’s parcel polygon for AIN 4420-009-021 computes 19,489 square feet (0.45 acres), which is the figure that reaches MLS and the listing portals. The gap is 537 square feet, about 2.7 per cent — ordinary variance between a county mapping outline and a boundary measured on the ground. This page leads with the survey because it is the only figure a licensed surveyor set foot on the property to take, and because the County publishes its parcel geometry expressly as a mapping aid rather than a survey. Have your own surveyor confirm before relying on either.
AIN 4420-009-021, Tract 17906 Lot 2 — the same tract and lot recited in the preliminary title report, and the same tract map the plotted-easements plat is drawn from. The County record also carries 2,891 square feet of pre-fire living area, matching the plan set, and assesses the improvement at zero, consistent with the structure having been removed from the roll after the fire.
No Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety plan check or permit is on file for the conceptual set. Fire-rebuild rules, fees and timelines change; confirm the current pathway for this parcel directly with LADBS and the City’s fire-recovery office.
The survey was performed without the benefit of a title report, so recorded easements are not drawn on it. The title company’s plat shows a public-utility easement from the 1950s tract map; the plat itself is indicative and not a survey.
There is no soils report, geotechnical report or engineering geology report in the file, and none is offered here. The seller’s Vacant Land Questionnaire, signed 12 March 2026, answers no to being aware of any reports or studies bearing on the condition of the property, and no to fill, soil instability, caves or slippage. For context only: the parcel does not fall inside a State of California mapped Earthquake-Induced Landslide or Liquefaction zone, although such zones are mapped elsewhere in this hillside within about a quarter of a mile — those maps are regulatory screening tools drawn at neighbourhood scale, not findings about this lot. A buyer should assume a soils and geology investigation will be part of the plan-check path for new construction here, and should have their own geotechnical engineer scope and price it before removing contingencies.
The preliminary report (effective 14 January 2026) shows current-year and escaped property-tax installments then open, a 2019 deed of trust that has since been reconveyed but for which the title company wants lender confirmation, and the standard trust certification. None is unusual; each is cleared through escrow.
Debris-removal sign-off, a natural hazard disclosure report, utility availability letters and any soils or geology work. They will be added to the data room as received; ask for status.