Peppermill Run

Peppermill Run is 20.2 acres reached from three bird streets, Dove Lane, Peacock Lane and Pheasant Court, holding 71 addresses on 75 parcels with 0.44 miles of private street. The city zones 19.83 acres PRD Planned Residential Development under a Low-Density Residential general plan designation, which at three and a half addresses to the acre is among the lighter records of the fifty Fullerton neighborhoods on this site.

Edward H. White II Park is at 1550 Parks Road on 4.24 acres, open since 1971, with restrooms. Sunset Lane Elementary is 0.5 miles out at 700 students, Fern Drive Elementary 0.51 miles at 372, D. Russell Parks Junior High 0.27 miles at 854 and Sunny Hills High 0.32 miles at 2,337. The liquefaction zone covers 1.7 acres and the landslide zone half an acre.

Peppermill Run is 71 homes on 20.2 acres with no through streets, which is the whole design: Dove Lane, Peacock Lane and Pheasant Court all end rather than connect, so nothing passes through the neighborhood on its way to anywhere else. All three names are birds, and the homes turn over rarely.

Its most consequential piece of history is an agreement rather than a building. In 2020 Fullerton City Council moved to declare the old Bastanchury tree farm beside it surplus land, and found that a 1977 agreement between the city and Peppermill Run was still legally binding on the ground. The council rescinded the surplus declaration, and the tree farm was kept as a creekside park. A private agreement signed when the neighborhood was built protected the open space next to it more than forty years later.