Plan Description - City of Tustin

Chapter 2 • Plan Description
2.15 TELEPHONE
2.16 CABLE TELEVISION
Pacific Bell (PacBell) is the jurisdictional agency responsible for
providing telephone service to the Specific Plan area. However, base
closure law and recent utility deregulation permits provision of
telecommunications service through the local government or through a
third party provider (not necessarily PacBell). PacBell currently provides
telephone service to the base through a wire center located on Irvine
Center Drive in the City of Irvine. The existing telephone system does not
meet current PacBell standards and will not be reused.
The proposed telephone system is shown in Figure 2-13. New substructure
will be constructed in the planned roadways west of Jamboree Road and
will be served from an existing wire center at the intersection of Edinger
Avenue and Red Hill Avenue. It is highly desirable that the installation of
fiber optic facilities coincide with the installation of basic telephone
infrastructure.
Cox Cable is the cable franchise currently providing cable television
service to the Plan area. Cable television service is presently provided to
limited areas on the project site. These areas include the existing housing
east of Peters Canyon Channel, the Tustin Villas south of Edinger Avenue,
and the existing barracks east of Red Hill Avenue. Cable-TV service was
provided to the areas east of Peters Canyon Channel via a fiber-optic main
feeder along Harvard Avenue. The Tustin Villas and barracks were served
through a connection with the Harvard Avenue feeder at the intersection of
Harvard Avenue and Moffett Avenue.
With the City currently moving two non-exclusive franchise agreements
with cable purveyor that did not previously extend to MCAS-Tustin,
decisions regarding installation of new cable-TV service to all new
developments on the site will need to be discussed with both Cox and AT
& T, the City’s other franchise operator. New backbone cable system will
be installed along the proposed roadways as shown in Figure 2-14.
MCAS Tustin Specific Plan/Reuse Plan
City of Tustin
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