Palos Verdes Estates is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, USA on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It was designed by the noted American landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 13,340. According to the 2000 US Census, Palos Verdes Estates is the 81st richest place in the United States with at least 1,000 households. The city faces the Pacific Ocean, and there are several accessible beaches although most of the shoreline is marked by high cliffs. The city is mainly residential, with no traffic lights and relatively limited commercial areas around Malaga Cove and Lunada Bay. One of Southern California's most expensive neighborhoods, Palos Verdes Estates' aesthetics and architecture are protected by an Art Jury, a non-governmental organization which must approve any exterior alteration to any building, fence, sidewalk, or other structure. The city was incorporated in 1939, and the area around Malaga Cove has most of the Peninsula's earlier buildings.