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Council updates Transit Village sign rules to allow flexible sign programs and murals
Summary
The council approved Amendment No. 2 to the Transit Village Specific Plan to require sign programs for new multi‑tenant developments meeting a frontage threshold, allow freestanding multi‑tenant signs under conditions, relax building‑sign location limits and lift size caps on purely artistic murals.
The Redlands City Council on March 18 adopted Amendment No. 2 to the Transit Village Specific Plan (Resolution No. 8669), revising sign regulations for the Transit Village area that encompasses downtown and the transit station corridors.
Senior planner Kevin Berry summarized the amendment as a targeted set of updates intended to resolve practical issues that emerged under the current sign code and to align the specific plan with the municipal code. Key changes approved by the council include: requiring new “unified centers” (defined as multi‑tenant developments with at least 150 feet of street frontage) to prepare uniform sign programs; permitting freestanding multi‑tenant signs for certain pre‑existing unified centers subject to Planning Commission review; removing a restriction that limited building‑mounted signs to facades with building entrances (signs will be allowed on facades facing streets or parking areas, without increasing total allowable sign area); and removing size limits for murals that are strictly artistic so long as they do not include commercial identification or advertisements.
Planning Commission review recommended approval; the staff report cited a CEQA common‑sense exemption for the minor text changes. The council adopted the amendment, with staff noting a last‑minute typographical paragraph would be excluded from the approved resolution.
The amendment aims to give property and business owners greater flexibility in sign placement, while preserving overall area limits and requiring unified sign programs to reduce clutter on qualifying multi‑tenant developments. The change to mural rules clarified that noncommercial artwork is not subject to the plan’s prior size caps but kept commercial signage rules in place.
Councilmembers voted to adopt the specific‑plan amendment following the public hearing and a staff presentation; no written public comments were received on this item and no separate environmental review beyond the CEQA exemption was required.
