DANA POINT : City Agrees to Buy Eight Entrance Signs

The City Council has unanimously agreed to spend $135,000 to build and install eight entrance signs at strategic points at the city limits.

All but $5,000 of the sign money will come from the 1992-93 fiscal year budget, the council decided. The initial $5,000 will pay for a mock-up sign to be built and presented to the council in early June for final approval, said City Engineer Dennis H. Jue.

The signs will be about 6 to 8 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet high and will be of reinforced concrete made to “look like rock,” Jue said.

The cost of the signs include all lighting costs but the city may not light all of them, said Mayor Mike Eggers. The final funding was cheaper than city officials had anticipated Eggers said.

“What we approved, the $135,000, is the absolute maximum we will spend,” Eggers said. “Our original estimate was $35,000 a sign.”

The signs at the limits of the Monarch Beach and Capistrano Beach neighborhoods will include their names.

Three of the signs will read “Welcome to Monarch Beach Dana Point”-- one on Pacific Coast Highway at the north city limit, another on Crown Valley Parkway at the north city limit and the third on Niguel Road at the north city limit.

Two of the signs will say “Welcome to Capistrano Beach Dana Point”-- on Doheny Park Road at the north city limit, and at the intersection of Calle Hermosa and Camino de Estrella.

The three remaining entrance signs will say: Welcome to Dana Point. They will be on Street of the Golden Lantern at the north city limit, on Del Obispo Road at the north city limit, and on Stonehill Drive at the east city limit.

A sign proposed for the Interstate 5 at Camino de Estrella was eliminated by the council and one proposed for the intersection of Camino Capistrano and Del Gado Road was put on hold.