The neighborhood
What Tustin asks of a crew
Old Town sits inside Tustin's Cultural Resources District and it still behaves like the 1880s town it grew out of. Short blocks around Main Street and El Camino Real, curb parking that fills by late afternoon, mature street trees and driveways cut for one car. A full-size truck usually stands at the curb rather than in front of the garage, so we shuttle from the door and protect the porch, the treads and the original hardwood on the way out. These houses were built before wide hallways, which is why a king mattress or an armoire often leaves through the front rather than the side.
East of Tustin Ranch Road the pattern flips. Gated tracts around Tustin Ranch Golf Club want the crew and the truck cleared at the gate, and most associations there have a view on where a truck stands and for how long. Tustin Legacy is the opposite problem: new stock, tri-level plans in Columbus Square, Columbus Grove, Greenwood and Levity, motorcourts instead of driveways, and stairs on every leg. Above the city, the unincorporated hillside lots in Cowan Heights and Lemon Heights add grade and narrow curves. And because the 5 and the 55 cross right here, we time the long-carry work off Newport Avenue, Red Hill Avenue and Irvine Boulevard around the commute rather than through it.
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