What Tustin considered
The commission convened at 6:00 PM in the Council Chamber and by video conference, with Commissioners Douthit, Gullo, Higuchi, Kozak, and Mason on the roll. The agenda listed two public hearings and no regular business. These are the items the commission was scheduled to consider from the posted agenda — the official results, from the minutes Tustin has since adopted, are summarized at the top of this page. Every item links to the official record.
Source: official agenda · Next meeting: September 8, 2026
✅ What actually passed (per the adopted minutes): The city’s action minutes for August 25 record Chair Pro Tem Kozak absent due to illness, so every roll-call vote that night carried 4-0-1. The commission approved both public hearings and took no regular business. On the warehouses, it adopted Resolution No. 4555 approving Design Review 2025-0009 and Subdivision 2025-0010 / Tentative Parcel Map 2026-108 for the two industrial buildings at 2441 Michelle Drive (Item 2, 4-0-1, moved by Douthit and seconded by Gullo). Staff told the commission the perimeter will get an 8-foot wrought iron fence rather than the existing chain link, and that the net increase in industrial floor area is approximately 50,000 square feet; the applicant estimated construction in phases over 10 to 12 months after roughly six months of plan check. On the church, the commission approved Item No. 3 as presented (4-0-1, moved by Mason and seconded by Douthit) — Design Review 2025-0020, Conditional Use Permit 2025-0022 and the CEQA addendum, plus the General Plan conformity finding for disposing of the 3.32-acre city-owned site. The land itself is not conveyed yet: the commission only recommended that the City Council adopt Ordinance No. 1581 approving Development Agreement 2026-0002, and that decision is still ahead of the council. Staff described the church’s expected use as two Sunday services with peak attendance between 8:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and up to 600 people on Sundays, about 100 during weekday evening small groups, with all 276 parking spaces on site and no parking permitted on Warner Avenue. The August 11 minutes were approved on consent (Item 1, 4-0-1). No public input was received on any item. The meeting adjourned at 6:51 p.m.
The headline: the commission was asked to approve Mariners Church's plan for a 33,422-square-foot, two-story religious assembly building with 276 parking spaces on a vacant 3.32-acre city-owned lot at the northeast corner of Warner Avenue and John Johnson Way in Tustin Legacy — and to recommend that the City Council adopt Ordinance No. 1581, a development agreement that would convey the city land for the project. A second hearing covered two new industrial warehouse buildings totaling 177,696 square feet on 8.3 acres at 2441 Michelle Drive.
🏘️ Tustin Legacy: a church campus on city land
- Mariners Church at Warner Avenue and John Johnson Way: applicant Blake Crane, on behalf of Mariners Church (5001 Newport Coast Drive, Irvine), sought Design Review 2025-0020 for the site layout and building design, Conditional Use Permit 2025-0022 to establish and operate a religious assembly use in a 33,422-square-foot building, and Development Agreement 2026-0002 to facilitate development and conveyance of the 3.32-acre City-owned site (APN 430-481-015) in Neighborhood D South of the Tustin Legacy Specific Plan. The project includes 276 on-site parking spaces. Item 3
- Staff recommended two resolutions: Resolution No. 4556, finding under General Plan Conformity 2026-0003 that the disposition of the city-owned site conforms to the General Plan and the specific plan; and Resolution No. 4557, approving the design review and conditional use permit, recommending that the City Council adopt Ordinance No. 1581 approving the development agreement, and adopting an addendum to the 2025 Tustin Legacy Specific Plan Supplemental EIR under CEQA Guidelines Sections 15164, 15162, and 15168 — concluding no subsequent or supplemental EIR is required. The council, not the commission, would make the final call on the development agreement. Presented by Senior Planner Erica H. Demkowicz. Item 3
🏗️ For developers & contractors: Michelle Drive warehouses
- 2441 Michelle Drive (APNs 432-471-16 and 432-391-59): applicant Jocelyn Wan of HPA, Inc., for property owner EBS Realty Partners, sought Design Review 2025-0009 for the site layout and building design of two new industrial warehouse buildings totaling approximately 177,696 square feet on an 8.3-acre site, and Subdivision 2025-0010 / Tentative Parcel Map 2026-108 to divide the site into two numbered parcels and one lettered lot. Staff recommended adopting Resolution No. 4555 approving both. Item 2
- Environmental review relied on a CEQA Section 15183 streamlining exemption, finding the project consistent with the city's previously certified General Plan EIR (State Clearinghouse No. 92101104), so no additional environmental document was prepared. Item 2
🪑 Also on the agenda
- Approval of the minutes of the August 11, 2026 meeting, the only consent item. Item 1
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