Los Angeles County Public Works crews will be starting to clear debris near Vasquez Canyon Road next week, but the construction of the road is still on hold.

“We’re starting to clear the debris to restore the grade that the road should be on,” said Steven Frasher, public information officer for the Los Angeles County Public Works. “The preliminary work is not the commencement of construction of a new road or a temporary road.”

The landslide occurred last year on November 20 and has been closed since.

The construction has been postponed because the hillside is unstable and on private property, Frasher said in a previous interview. The owner of the property is deceased.

The county is pursing eminent domain for the property through the judicial process and is currently using the county’s legal right of way in the research and grading of the road.

The damage to the road is about 400 feet in length.

The grading process would begin bringing the 12 feet of dirt back down to the road’s previous level, Frasher said. The plan is to not reroute the road but to “put the road where it has always been” after stabilizing the unstable hillside.