Base Issue Shows Tustin’s Bias
* Re “No Surrender in Civic War Over Base,” March 4:
According to the California Environmental Quality Act, the city of Tustin is required to comply with measures to mitigate all impacts on schools, housing, open space, commercial-industrial and cultural. It falls way short of any magnanimous gesture to relinquish a measly 20 acres out of the 1,600 acres. It might as well have offered 30 pieces of silver and a kiss of betrayal for revealing its true colors.
It is embarrassing to even bring this issue forward again. The city is clearly being class and racially discriminatory in its quest for “progress.” Masked in economic, commercial dominance, the city prefers to justify its discretion to favor more affluent South County institutional neighbors: Irvine and Saddleback Community College. The sad irony is they are lacking neither land nor per capita income.
ESTEBAN DELGADILLO
Santa Ana
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