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Commission approves expanded wall signage for new U-Haul facility on Ocotillo Road
Summary
Planning staff supported and the commission approved a comprehensive sign plan allowing increased wall-mounted signage for a three-story U‑Haul facility at Ocotillo and Chrisman Roads, with lighting dimming and off-hour controls.
The Queen Creek Planning & Zoning Commission approved a comprehensive sign plan for a new U‑Haul facility at the southeast corner of Ocotillo and Chrisman Roads that increases the maximum aggregate wall sign area allowed for a single user in the employment district.
Sarah Clark of the Development Services Department described the site as a roughly 5.5-acre property with about 127,000 square feet of storage housed mainly in a three-story building about 48 feet tall. Clark said the applicant seeks a deviation from the code’s aggregate wall-sign allowance for an employment district: the zoning ordinance allows 150 square feet for a single user, and U‑Haul requested 278 square feet of wall-mounted signage.
Clark said the proposed signage package includes two illuminated U‑Haul cabinet signs and four non-illuminated signs on the northeast and west elevations. The applicant committed that the illuminated cabinet signs would be dimmed to 50% in evening hours and turned off by 10 p.m. (or earlier), and that illuminated interior corridors visible from Ocotillo Road would be dimmed to 20% in evening hours and turned off after non-operational hours. Staff recommended approval, noting the request is consistent with signage approved at other U‑Haul facilities in town and that this proposal requests somewhat less signage than some earlier approvals.
Steve Sky, representing the applicant, said the signage is intended to maintain U‑Haul branding and to provide wayfinding and public-safety benefits by making the facility identifiable from Ocotillo Road. He said the applicant views the signs as necessary given the building’s size.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about interior corridor lighting and security lighting; Clark said security lighting could remain as needed but hallway illumination would be reduced after hours for non-operational periods. Because the item was a final action, the commission did not open the floor for public comment. A motion to approve the U‑Haul comprehensive sign plan (Case P24-0144) passed; the transcript records that the vote proceeded and the chair moved on to the next business, but it does not include a roll-call tally in the record.
Implementation will follow normal permitting and any electrical/lighting requirements the town enforces for illuminated signs.
