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Will We Get The Caltrans Treat(ment)?
Businesses along the corridor of Interstate 5 through Tustin and Irvine beware. Meetings are being held for so-called public input for the proposed widening of the I-5 corridor through our town Tustin....
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Uh-Oh, Is That A Boo-Boo?
As expected, last night’s Tustin Planning Commission meeting was lackluster to say the least. City staff did manage to stretch the meeting by presenting a comprehensive discussion during the public...
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On The City Council Agenda – Tuesday February 3, 2015
Unless items are pulled from the Consent Calendar for discussion, Tuesday’s Tustin City Council meeting should be fairly short. Of course, short is a relative term when it comes to this council, who...
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Veterans Memorial Forum Scheduled
Keep February 9, 2015 open, especially if you are a veteran. The Parks and Recreation Department has sent out a press release announcing a “Veterans Memorial Design Forum” to be held in the Tustin City...
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On The City Council Agenda – Tuesday, February 17, 2015
For once, there is not much on the Closed Session agenda for the upcoming Tustin City Council meeting on Tuesday. Don’t expect any report from the city attorney. At the meeting two weeks ago, everyone...
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On The Planning Commission Agenda – February 24, 2015
Updated 2/23/15 10:00 pm – Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting agenda has only five items on it with two of those being routine Consent Calendar issues. Unless someone raises an issue with the 2014...
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On the City Council Agenda – March 3, 2015
Welcome to the Monday morning edition of Our Town Tustin. It was a quiet weekend around the home office. We were originally supposed to cook in the American Legion Riders annual chili cookoff but the...
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Veterans Memorial Forum On Target
If you read this blog with any regularity (which we appreciate), you will recall our article announcing a Veterans Memorial Forum on February 6th. That forum, really a community workshop, gave the...
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On The City Council Agenda – March 17, 2015
Today's communications system is light years ahead of the old system used when I was chasing down police calls with my CHP surplus radio in my '68 Charger. Ah, the good old days.
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Death and Taxes
Apologies for not doing my usual writeups on the latest Planning Commission meeting but tax day is rearing its ugly head and I want to stay ahead of the curb for once. My tax forms sent off,...
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Tustin PD Still Looking For Robbery Suspect
P R E S S R E L E A S E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: March 31, 2015...
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Welcome to the Police State, Tustin Style
The first order of business for the Planning Commission a couple of weeks ago was to install the “new” commissioners whose terms had previously expired. What? You didn’t know there were expiring terms?...
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On The City Council Agenda – April 7, 2015
The Closed Session business on this week’s Tustin City Council may take longer to shuffle through than the Open Session. The Closed Session will be split with the city council re-convening for labor...
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Veterans First and Last at Tustin City Council Meeting
I still have to wonder if Nielsen doesn't have ulterior motives aimed toward higher office. I'm not sure what all another committee can do above what the Orange County Veterans Task Force already does...
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On The Planning Commission Agenda – April 14, 2015
Yes, like a bad penny, the resolution on Second Residential Units keeps coming back to haunt us. Fortunately, this time, it is just to rectify a staff mistake in numbering. With any luck, Altowaiji...
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On The City Council Agenda – April 21, 2015
This ordinance garnered a lot of attention during hearings by the Planning Commission. Sam Altowaiji just about blew a gasket over Elizabeth Binsack's response to his demand to change the ordinance....
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Oooops!
Every once in awhile, we make a boo boo which our readers are more than happy to point out. In this case, we erred slightly when we told you that Melissa Figge of the Tustin Preservation Conservancy...
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On The Agenda Of The Not-So-Special Tustin City Council Meeting, May 20, 2015
You might have wondered why Our Town Tustin didn’t write up the city council agenda for yesterday. That’s because the councilmembers had an odd moment when the most important guys wouldn’t be there....
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Parking And Water – What The City Says
No Planning Commission meeting tonight. There is a hearing tonight at the Tustin Unified School District Headquarters at 6 pm regarding the establishment of a Community Facilities District 15-1,...
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On The City Council Agenda – Tuseday June 2, 2015
Among other hot topics, opponents of the permit parking ordinance for the Veeh Drive/Nisson Road area will get a last chance to thwart the NIMBYS at tonight’s meeting of the Tustin City Council. Care...
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