HomeMy WebLinkAboutLili Huang-Item 6Woodward, Carrie
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Sent:
Monday, March 17, 2025 11:12 PM
To:
City Council
Cc:
Andrew Wang
Subject:
Tustin legacy new apartments
To the Tustin City Council,
I am a resident of the Landing at Tustin Legacy and am writing to
you with regards to the consent calendar item number 6:
"Disposition and Development Agreement with Tustin Legacy
Acquisition LLC (Irvine Company) for portions of disposition areas
2B, 2C and 8 at Tustin Legacy".
I am supportive of this new development and I believe the Irvine
Company is capable of delivering a high -quality project that will be
great for the city of Tustin. However, as the most directly impacted
neighbor, I have significant concerns regarding the location of the
parking garage entrance for Building One which is aligned with the
existing Flight Way street (see attached image).
Many future residents of the new development will likely enter their
community directly through our neighborhood - coming from the 55
Freeway, traveling southbound on Barranca, and will be compelled
to make a left turn onto Armstrong Ave and a right turn onto Flight
Way in order to avoid an additional signalized, left turn at Tustin
Ranch Road and Compass Avenue (see attached image). Flight
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Way is a narrow residential road with parallel parking on both sides.
There is also an increased level of pedestrian traffic from the Alley
Grove Promenade that crosses Flight Way. Pedestrians crossing
Flight Way, between parked cars, are often unseen by motorists.
One of the things that makes our Landing at Tustin Legacy
community special is that it is a safe neighborhood, where children
run around playing tag and hide & seek and families walk around
the community throughout the day. In addition, we are home to
quite a few new parents who can frequently be seen taking their
babies for strolls. However, the increased traffic flow from the
Tustin Legacy Specific Plan will make this increasingly problematic
and create a dangerous situation.
The garage entrances for buildings 2 through 6 are well located on
new streets that are interior to the proposed development, or in the
case of building 6, not in alignment with a proposed street. While I
understand that the locations of the parking garages have been
assessed by traffic specialists and this is a second reading, I still
hope the City and the Irvine Company would consider relocation of
the garage entrance. Many of us are new to Tustin and first-time
homeowners who do not understand how City government works,
which is why we didn't speak out at the first reading. Consideration
of this design change would go a long way to validate that we are
being heard.
I also would encourage the City to consider engaging with the
residents living at Tustin Legacy. Tustin Legacy is a sizable
property that will have a significant impact on the future of Tustin,
but development has been both slow and seems to happen in a
vacuum and without public input.
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To reiterate, I'm not opposed to the development but would very
much appreciate you considering a design change to relocate the
location of the parking garage entrance for Building One.
Sincerely,
Lili Huang by & Andrew Wang
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