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Tustin endorses package of parking fixes for Southwest Tustin, asks staff for implementation timeline
Summary
After a presentation and public comment, the council directed staff to pursue a phased package of recommendations — including expanded enforcement, permit promotion in multiple languages, shared‑parking agreements, lighting and markings — and approved moving forward with vendor procurement and outreach.
TUSTIN — The City Council unanimously supported a package of short‑ and medium‑term measures to address chronic parking shortages in Southwest Tustin and directed staff to provide implementation timelines.
Senior Planner George Maldonado summarized the study’s methods and five key findings, noting that demand currently exceeds supply in the study area and that the neighborhood is among the county’s densest. “There’s more cars than there are spaces in this part of Tustin,” Maldonado said, emphasizing enforcement gaps and communication shortfalls around the existing permit program.
Recommendations brought to the council included searching for a parking-enforcement vendor, promoting the permit program in multiple languages, adjusting enforcement hours, restricting oversized commercial vehicles, creating shared parking agreements with nearby commercial property owners, installing additional street lighting and painting/maintaining on‑street space markings, and designating motorcycle/scooter parking spots.
Apartment managers and residents urged more consistent enforcement; one commenter, John Gray, said enforcement currently concentrates in a short window and asked for expanded hours and improved reporting tools via the city app. “There’s no enforcement on the weekends…many times, we see them leave at 4, 04:30 knowing that they’re not gonna get cited,” Gray said.
Councilmembers discussed adding a short‑term point person to coordinate enforcement, outreach and shared‑parking agreements. Councilmember Fink said a dedicated staff lead — whether a temporary assignment or new hire — would accelerate implementation during the first 6–12 months. Staff said some items could be phased and that community‑development pieces (translations, code adjustments for shared parking) could produce a path forward by the end of the year; procurement of an enforcement vendor could take roughly 4–8 months.
The council moved and approved the recommendations and asked staff to return with a timeline for each recommendation and to provide communications in English and Spanish for affected residents.
