What Tustin is about to decide

The City Council goes into closed session at 5:00 p.m. and convenes the regular meeting of the council and the Tustin Housing Authority at 6:00 p.m. The agenda runs ten consent items and three public hearings, and nearly all of the money on it belongs to one place: Tustin Legacy, the former Marine Corps Air Station. These are pending decisions from the posted agenda — not outcomes. Every item links to the official record.

Source: official agenda · Next meeting: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 (closed session 4:30 p.m., regular business 6:00 p.m.)

✅ What actually passed (per the signed minutes): The city’s action minutes of this meeting, since signed, record the following. The $7,574,038.81 Armstrong Avenue Pedestrian Bridge contract was awarded 5-0 to Toro Enterprises, Inc. after Council Member Fink pulled it from consent, with a fifteen percent contingency for the bridge project, a $170,000.00 amendment with T.Y. Lin International and a $50,000.00 amendment with Michael Baker International. Ordinance No. 1580, the development agreement with CD-CW (Tustin) LLC for 172 senior units and an assisted living and memory care facility on the 6.14-acre Tustin Legacy site, was adopted on second reading with the balance of the consent calendar, 5-0. Ordinance No. 1581, the Mariners Church development agreement, was introduced 4-1, Fink dissenting, with second reading set for the next available meeting. Ordinance No. 1582 (Tustin City Code Chapter 4, Section 1415) was adopted on second reading 4-1, Fink dissenting. The council voted 5-0 to adopt Resolution No. 26-49 ordering the vacation of Enderle Center Drive, with a friendly amendment from Mayor Lumbard directing staff to monitor the impacts; 5-0 to authorize a listing agreement with CBRE, Inc. to market the South Hangar site; and 5-0 to introduce Ordinance No. 1579 on the police military equipment policy. The rest of consent passed 5-0, including payroll of $1,225,615.64, demands of $8,027,486.25 and a $250,000 agreement with Griffin Structures for the Civic Center campus study. The City Attorney reported no reportable action from closed session. Ordinances No. 1581 and 1579 are on the October 6 agenda for second reading. Update, October 10, 2026: the city has posted the signed minutes (City Clerk Erica N. Yasuda and Mayor Pro Tem Ray Schnell); every vote recorded above matches them, including the two 4-1 roll calls on which Council Member Fink dissented.

The headline: a $7,574,038.81 construction contract for the Armstrong Avenue Pedestrian Bridge sits on the consent calendar, alongside $8,027,486.25 in demands and $1,225,615.64 in payroll. Two Tustin Legacy development agreements move the same night — a 172-unit senior housing and memory-care project up for final adoption, and a 33,422-square-foot Mariners Church up for first reading. In closed session: the North Hangar fire and the hazardous materials released by it.

🛣 A $7,574,038.81 pedestrian bridge — on consent

The council would award a construction contract in the amount of $7,574,038.81 “for the Armstrong Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and Neighborhood D-South Phase 2 - Package 2 Projects to Toro Enterprises, Inc. as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.” Item 5
It would also approve a fifteen percent project contingency for the bridge and let the City Manager execute change orders up to that amount — so the authorized ceiling sits above the bid price. Item 5
Two engineering amendments ride with it: $170,000.00 to T.Y. Lin International (Amendment No. 2) and $50,000.00 to Michael Baker International (Amendment No. 4), both for construction engineering support during construction. Item 5
The agenda states the engineer’s estimates were $5,522,000 for the bridge and $4,242,000 for Neighborhood D South Phase 2 — both above the single bid price. Budgeted construction funding is $6,207,489 for the bridge and $5,000,000 for the Neighborhood D project, and the agenda says both are “fully funded in the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Budget, including the fifteen percent project contingency.” Item 5

🏗 Two Tustin Legacy development agreements in one night

Ordinance No. 1580 — second reading and adoption. It approves Development Agreement 2025-0001 with CD-CW (Tustin) LLC (Confluent Development) for the City-owned 6.14-acre site at the southeast corner of Warner Avenue and Armstrong Avenue. The project, as described on the agenda: 172 residential units for active seniors and an approximately 143,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care facility. A second reading is the last council step before an ordinance takes effect. Item 6
Ordinance No. 1581 — introduction and first reading, at a public hearing. It would approve Development Agreement 2026-0002 with Mariners Church, “a California non-profit religious corporation,” for a 33,422-square-foot religious assembly use on a vacant, City-owned 3.324-acre site at the northeast corner of Warner Avenue and John Johnson Way. The agenda is explicit that the agreement “does not convey the property or establish the purchase price; those terms were set in the Purchase and Sale Agreement previously approved.” Second reading is set for the next available meeting. Item 12
Separately, in closed session, the council will confer with its real property negotiators over APN 430-481-12, under negotiation for “Price and Terms of Payment.” The negotiating party named on the agenda is “Steve Strom, Managing Director, CD-CW (Tustin) LLC” — the same company named in Ordinance No. 1580. The agenda does not say whether the closed-session parcel is the same 6.14-acre site. Closed Session 5

💰 $8,027,486.25 in demands, $1,225,615.64 in payroll

Under Government Code Section 37208, the council would “approve Payroll in the amount of $1,225,615.64 and Demands in the amount of $8,027,486.25.” The agenda does not break either figure down. Item 3
A $250,000 Consultant Services Agreement with Griffin Structures for a Civic Center Campus Assessment and Feasibility Study, plus up to $50,000 in City Manager amendment authority (20 percent) above it. The study would “evaluate existing facilities, identify current and future needs, and develop potential options and recommendations for the long-term use, improvement, or redevelopment of the campus.” Item 10

🏢 A broker for 32 acres at the South Hangar

The council would authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a Listing Agreement with CBRE, Inc. for marketing and solicitation services covering the South Hangar and portions of the surrounding leased property, totaling approximately 32 acres, in Neighborhood D of the Tustin Legacy Specific Plan. Item 7
The agenda prints the negotiated commission schedule in full: 3.0% of total sublease payments for years 1–5, 1.5% for years 6–10, 0.75% for years 11–15 and 0.37% for years 16–20, capped at the first 20 years of sublease payments. It states there is “no direct fiscal impact given that commission to a real estate broker is paid by the prospective sublessee upon execution of a sublease.” Item 7

🚧 Giving up a street: the Enderle Center Drive vacation

A public hearing the council itself set on June 16, 2026, when it adopted Resolution No. 26-30 declaring its intent. It would now adopt Resolution No. 26-49 ordering the vacation of Enderle Center Drive — giving up the city’s interest in the street. Item 11
The request came on May 28, 2026 from BWP Campo 1, LLC and Intracorp Socal-1 LLC. On July 28, 2026 the Planning Commission adopted Resolution No. 4552 finding the vacation conforms with the General Plan. Item 11
The stated fiscal effect is avoided cost, not revenue: the vacation “will save approximately $185,000 to $380,000 in near-term pavement rehabilitation costs, with the potential for approximately $740,000 to $1.9 million in avoided pavement rehabilitation expenditures over 30 years.” Item 11

🚔 Police military equipment, up for its annual renewal

A public hearing on Ordinance No. 1579, which would approve Tustin Police Department Policy 706, Military Equipment Use Policy, as Assembly Bill 481 requires. Only the introduction and first reading are before the council on Sept. 15. Item 13
The agenda prints no dollar figure for the equipment. It states the annual cost of use and maintenance “is identified within Policy 706 under each applicable equipment category” — an attachment, not the agenda — and that funding for existing equipment “has been appropriated through the current adopted budget.” Item 13

⚖ Five closed-session matters, including the North Hangar fire

Significant exposure to litigation — one case — “related to the fire at the North Hangar owned by the Navy and the release of hazardous materials therefrom.” Closed Session 3
Existing litigation: Onterris Response and Recovery, LLC, et al, v. City of Tustin et al., O.C.S.C. Case No. 30-2026-01572066-CU-BC-CJC. Closed Session 4
Anticipated litigation — two cases of significant exposure, and two cases the city may itself initiate. No further detail is given on any of the four. Closed Sessions 1, 2
City Attorney David E. Kendig is listed to deliver the closed session report when the council returns to open session. Closed Session Report

🪑 Also on the agenda

Resolution No. 26-53 updating the city’s Conflict of Interest Code in the required biennial review, superseding Resolution No. 24-63. The agenda states no fiscal impact. Item 4
Ordinance No. 1582 — second reading, amending City Code Chapter 4, Section 1415 (Powers and Duties Generally) for consistency with “prior voter-authorized amendments” and existing personnel rules. Item 8
The Tustin Housing Authority’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Annual Housing Report and Senate Bill 341 report, to be received and filed and transmitted to the state Department of Housing and Community Development. Item 9
Approval of the September 1, 2026 action minutes, and the standard motion waiving reading in full. Items 1, 2
A presentation from the Orange County Hunger Alliance on Hunger Action Month, and presentation of colors by the American Legion. No action is listed on either. Presentations
The council is listed as Mayor Lumbard, Mayor Pro Tem Schnell, and Council Members Nielsen, Fink and Gallagher; the City Manager is Aldo E. Schindler. Agenda

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