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Commission approves comprehensive sign plan for Land 85 project at SR 85 and Baseline
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a comprehensive sign plan for Land 85 (formerly Buckeye 225), clearing requests to exceed base allowances for the number of freestanding signs and approving design, illumination and height details for campus‑style signage along State Route 85.
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a comprehensive sign plan (case PLZSP240027) for Land 85, a roughly 220‑acre master development at the northwest corner of State Route 85 and Baseline Road (formerly identified as Buckeye 225).
Planning manager Ken Galica (recorded as Mr. Galica) presented the proposal and noted a project name change from Buckeye 225 to Land 85. The plan covers multiple sign types: two Land 85 identification monuments at project corners (about 6 feet, 6 inches tall) designed as place‑identification, five multi‑tenant monument signs (about 19 feet tall) near primary entrances, building‑mounted tenant signage consistent with development code allowances, and one freeway‑oriented pylon adjacent to State Route 85 (taller to accommodate higher travel speeds and visibility).
Galica said the sign materials and patterns are complementary to building architecture, that multi‑tenant monuments will use internal illumination and the identification monuments will use face‑illuminated pan‑channel letters, and that landscape up‑lighting will be used for the identification monuments. He told commissioners the project requests two variations from the base code: (1) increase in the number of freestanding signs from the base limit (the project proposes eight freestanding signs where the base code allowance tied to parcel count would limit the development to four) and (2) slightly larger sign panel sizes per side than a typical industrial project allowance. Heights for sign types are within code allowances; the requested deviations are primarily about count and panel width.
Galica said staff finds the signs to be high quality, consistent with the area’s intended employment corridor character and appropriate given the site’s size, multi‑tenant nature and lack of adjacent residential uses. No public comments were submitted on this item and multiple commissioners expressed support for the design. The commission moved, seconded and approved the comprehensive sign plan subject to conditions A through C.
The approval permits the developer to proceed to permit drawings and building‑mounted sign permits consistent with the approved plan and its conditions.
