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Design Review Committee presses staff for redlines and more review of proposed Orange sign-code overhaul
Summary
The City of Orange Design Review Committee reviewed a comprehensive, citywide rewrite of the municipal sign code, pressing staff for redlines, clearer technical standards and more time before a Planning Commission hearing tentatively scheduled for April 19.
Senior Planner Arlen Beck told the Design Review Committee that the city has prepared “a big and dense, comprehensive update” to the Orange Municipal Code governing signs that would standardize definitions, create sign districts, and introduce citywide sign-design guidelines while preserving historic-district design review.
The committee used the presentation as a focused review session rather than a vote. Beck said the draft is intended to bring the city into compliance with state and federal law, to give staff clearer enforcement authority and to provide a companion guidelines document for design considerations. He said staff is tentatively planning to take the…
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