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Walnut Creek restarts sign-code update; staff, consultants seek input on signage and wayfinding
Summary
At a Jan. 30 study session, Walnut Creek planning and design commissioners heard consultants from Minteer Harnish outline a restart of a sign-code update begun in 2019 and discussed scope, First Amendment limits, zone‑based standards, accessibility, durability and outreach; staff solicited volunteers for a working group.
Walnut Creek’s Joint Planning Commission and Design Review Commission met in a study session on Jan. 30, 2025, to restart a multiyear update of the city’s sign regulations and design guidelines. Community Development Director Bridal Vanenbrand opened the presentation and introduced Minteer Harnish, the consultant team leading the update.
The project — launched in 2019, paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and restarted last year — aims to modernize sign standards and design guidance so they reflect current technologies and local preferences while remaining consistent with constitutional and building‑code limits. “It’s our intention to be able to use this process … to ultimately have a sign set of sign regulations that are congruent with what modern day signage requirement…might be,” Community Development Director Bridal Vanenbrand said.
The consultant team outlined core objectives: create clearer, more flexible standards that allow innovative design while giving predictable results; reflect contemporary trends…
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