Plan Description - City of Tustin

Chapter 2 • Plan Description
1) provide community scale recreational opportunities and uses
which cannot be accommodated in small neighborhood parks;
2) complement the campus setting of the Education Village and
the special qualities of the Urban Regional Park; and 3) provide
a buffer and link between the Education Village and Village
Housing Neighborhoods.
4. Neighborhood Park: The Neighborhood Parks are
symbolically illustrated on the Land Use Plan within the
residential designations. The intent is to have the sites
transferred by the military and improved with park fees from
future developers or dedicated by a future developer of parcels
in the vicinity. These parks are small, localized recreation
facilities intended to serve populations in each residential
neighborhood. It is the intent to: 1) provide the type, scale and
mix of recreation facilities geared toward serving
neighborhood recreational needs; 2) carefully integrate each
park into its surrounding environment so that it functions as a
valuable open space relief for the developed areas; 3) achieve
the required local park acreage in combination with the
Community Park; and 4) complement school sites where they
are adjacent to park sites to increase effective recreation space.
The neighborhood parks are generally located on the Land Use
Plan and will need to be a minimum size of 5 acres, with the
exception of the proposed park location in Irvine, which will be
8 acres in size.
5. Regional Riding/Hiking and Bicycle Trail: This designation
provides for recognition of the county-wide trail system for
equestrian, hiking, and bicycling activities which pass through
or are adjacent to the Specific Plan area. It is the intent to: 1)
achieve improvement of the trail system as development
occurs; and 2) connect pedestrian trails within the cities of
Tustin and Irvine to the regional system.
6. Elementary School/High School: Elementary schools and a
high school are symbolically shown on the Land Use Plan
within other land use designations to provide K-5, K-8 or 9-12
grade ranges as determined by applicable school districts. It is
the intent to: 1) to insure integration of any school sites into
neighborhoods; and 2) develop school sites in conjunction with
adjacent neighborhood parks, wherever possible. Four school
sites are proposed: two 10- acre elementary school sites and a
minimum 40- acre high school site in Tustin, and a minimum
20- acre elementary (K-8) school in Irvine. The schools are
generally located on the Land Use Plan.
MCAS Tustin Specific Plan/Reuse Plan
City of Tustin
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