FPUD purchases parcel adjacent to offices

The Fallbrook Public Utility District now owns a Santa Margarita Drive parcel adjacent to the FPUD administrative offices.

During the closed session of FPUD's April 25 board meeting, the directors voted 4-0, with one vacancy, to approve the purchase of the parcel for $65,000 and to authorize staff to enter into escrow. A 5-0 board vote May 23 accepted the grant deed.

"It's a strip of land, 0.89 acres, that abuts the Fallbrook parking lot and Santa Margarita Road," said FPUD general manager Brian Brady. "It's vacant land, but the district purchased it to be both a buffer and additional parking if needed at some later point in time."

Home Grove, LLC, had previously owned the land.

Brady did not rule out the possibility of the newly acquired parcel being used for overflow parking once it has a suitable dirt surface. "We need to clean it up because it's overgrown, and we'll be doing that," he said.