So I got a message back and it's honestly kinda confusing. They said, "It is not a new requirement. It was, however, recently added on the page you note since it didn't seem to be obvious or prevalent to some based on UCD equivalencies."
What isn't a new requirement? The physics in general or the trig/calc based physics? The prereq description on their website never explicitly stated that the physics requirement had to be trig/calc based. If anything, the description more closely matched the course description for my algebra-based physics classes. Have any other admitted students taken trig/calc based physics?