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City consultant outlines outreach push for Tustin Legacy core, schedules April workshops
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JPW consultant Suzanne Banquette told the Tustin City Council the 2026 outreach program for the Tustin Legacy Core will include two workshops (April 22–23), two surveys, tabling at community events and a May–June report to council compiling community feedback focused on cost, safety and environmental concerns.
Suzanne Banquette, a consultant with JPW, told the Tustin City Council on April 7 that the next phase of outreach for the Tustin Legacy Core will step up in 2026 with two community workshops, two surveys and expanded tabling and promotions.
"Our goals for outreach were really simply to just continue to raise the community awareness of legacy, the history, the vision, the progress, and future development," Banquette said, summarizing the project’s outreach objectives and noting prior activity that included tabling at seven events and three community meetings.
Banquette said the outreach has repeatedly surfaced three main concerns—cost, safety and environmental impacts—and that residents also want updates about the hangars’ status and how the city will honor the site’s history. She described plans for two workshops at the Marketplace community center on April 22 and 23, a pre-workshop survey to gather big-picture priorities, and a second workshop to weigh priorities against framework planning prepared by a third party. Promotional tactics will include mailed postcards, email newsletters, social media, lawn signs and in-person tabling.
Council member Fink said the outreach is important but cautioned that some residents fear decisions have already been made. "There's a fear that decisions have been made either intentionally or by default," Fink said, and urged staff to ensure collected feedback is presented back to council before concept and planning stages.
Banquette told the council staff will return with a full report on community input at a May or June council presentation. The presentation closed with an invitation for residents to attend the workshops and complete the surveys so the city and its consultants can incorporate community priorities before moving into concept and planning phases.
The presentation and the workshops are part of an ongoing outreach effort led by JPW and city staff to inform residents and gather input on the long-term redevelopment and preservation of the Tustin Legacy Core hangars.
