Murrieta, CA Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

120(E) of the Murrieta Municipal Code sets four standards for freeway signs. First, a freeway sign must sit on a property with freeway frontage or within 150 feet of the freeway right-of-way; where a frontage street separates the site from the right-of-way, the city measures the 150 feet from the street centerline. Second, spacing is tiered by technology: signs with digital display must be 1,000 feet from any other freeway sign, while non-digital freeway signs need only 500 feet of separation from other freeway signs on the same side of the street, including signs on different parcels.

Third, every freeway sign must incorporate a decorative stone base matched to the center's architecture, sized proportionate to the sign but never less than five feet tall or more than 30 percent of the total sign height. Fourth, the city's logo or another approved city symbol must appear on the sign structure, subject to the director's approval. 140-3 (multi-tenant sites) separately caps freestanding freeway sign area at up to 225 square feet and 40 feet in height depending on street frontage length, with the same 1,000/500-foot spacing rule repeated. 050.