Luxury Remodeling in Topanga

Topanga is a canyon rather than a town. Its homes gather in a handful of rural villages strung along Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Old Topanga Canyon Road, both mapped as scenic routes, and thin out across the hillsides in between. Most of the canyon sits inside the Santa Monica Mountains Coastal Zone, and nearly all of it is rated a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. A pool, terrace or guest house here is shaped by habitat mapping, septic layout and the rainy-season grading calendar before it is shaped by style, and settling those three early is what keeps a Topanga project moving.

Two patterns: the rural villages of Fernwood, Old Topanga, Topanga Oaks, Topanga Woods and the Old Post Office Tract, which the coastal program defines as antiquated mountain subdivisions, many created in the 1920s and often lacking infrastructure built to current standards, and scattered hillside parcels on the slopes between them. In the villages, new development must be sited to avoid oak woodland, and where removal cannot be avoided it may not exceed 10 percent of the oak woodland on the property. Where new residential development is approved in H2 or H3 habitat, the building site, counting graded slopes, structures, decks, patios and other hard surfaces, is capped at 10,000 square feet or 25 percent of the parcel, whichever is less.

One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Topanga project are the people on site building it.