New commercial and industrial development should contribute to providing a sense of place for the community. The city requires that commercial and industrial developments on corners of major arterial s help strengthen the community's design character by providing consistently designed monument signs as part of their projects.
A. Applicability. Any project over ten acres that has a general plan designation of community commercial, regional commercial, or business park shall provide a community entry monument sign as outlined in the following standards. Whenever practical, the sign shall be placed at the intersection of arterial streets.
B. Standards. Each community entry monument sign shall be designed within the standards provided below and the following illustrations: (See figures on the following pages).
1. Forty -foot (40') radius corner cutoff for landscape and sign installation;
2. Two formal curvilinear planting rows of trees (silk oak, tulip tree, London plane, California pepper, American sweetgum) set behind theme wall/fence;
3. Theme wall/fence, placed at forty-five (45') foot diagonal corner cutoff, maximum five feet high, with corner pilasters of decorative stone consistent with the overall design/architecture of the center/development;
4. Turf grass in front of sign;
5. Formal shrub hedgerow at base of wall/fence, maximum of thirty (30) inches in height;
6. Annual or perennial flower bed, four feet wide in front of hedgerow;
7. Incorporation of official Murrieta text/logo/slogan (see figure on following pages) on sign. Letters shall be a minimum of six inches high, three dimensional bronze with brushed finish, antiqued dark color up-per case;
8. Lighting shall be indirect. The light shall wash up onto the sign; and
9. Corner pilasters shall be of decorative stone consistent with the overall design/architecture of the center/development. The pilaster shall not exceed six feet in height. The minimum dimension of a pilaster shall be two feet by two feet.
(Ord. 524 Exhibit A, 2017; Ord. 343 § 5, 2005; Ord. 182 § 2 (part), 1997)