The Avondale City Council held a regular meeting on October 22, 2025, which included the consent agenda, public hearings on the Ashley Furniture minor general plan amendment and rezone (items 4A and 4B), and a budget workshop for fiscal year 2025. The meeting was called to order at 23:39 UTC, with all council members present except Councilmember Solorio (excused). The consent agenda was approved unanimously, and the budget session covered financial updates, economic indicators, Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) status, and council priorities for the upcoming budget cycle.
Items 4A & 4B – Ashley Furniture Minor General Plan Amendment and Rezone: Senior Planner Michelle presented the proposal to change the land use designation from freeway commercial, high-intensity office, and mixed use to business park (65.7 acres) and freeway commercial (9.3 acres), and to rezone the 75-gross-acre site from Avondale Gateway PAD to Ashley Furniture PAD. The project includes a showroom, call center, light manufacturing, retail sales, and warehousing. Deviations requested: reduction of rear building setback from 15 to 10 feet (for a security building), a zero-foot internal building setback, and an increase of 388 parking spaces. The Planning Commission recommended approval (3-1). Council discussion focused on truck traffic noise, setbacks, and the restriction that trucks must enter from 107th Avenue and not use Roosevelt Street west of 111th Avenue. Councilmember White expressed concern about the 10-foot setback for the security building. The city manager noted that prohibiting trucks on public right-of-way is difficult. The mayor highlighted the project's 900+ jobs and $1 million annual tax revenue. Item 4A passed 5-1; item 4B passed 6-0.
Budget Workshop – Fiscal Year 2025:
I'd like to call the regular meeting of December 18th, 2023 to order. Would you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of reflection? Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under T and Justice Raw. Thank you all. Chris, do you do mind doing roll call? Councilmember Condi. Councilmember Malone. Councilmember Nielsen. Councilmember White. Here. Vice Mayor Pineda. Here. Mayor Weiss. Here. And Councilmember Solorio has an excused absence tonight. For this meeting and for the budget session. Chris, we have any uh comment cards on schedule public appearances. Uh no, Mayor, we do not. Item number three is the consent agenda. Are there any counselors who wish to have an item removed for separate consideration? Seeing and hearing none, can I get a motion, please? I have a motion from Councilmember White, a second from our vice mayor. Please vote. Thank you, members. It passes 6-0. Ron, item 4A, please. Ron, will 4A and 4B put together? That is correct, Mr. Mayor. Council uh Michelle, our senior planner with development services will present both items for your consideration tonight. I'm good. How are you? All right. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members. Tonight I'm presenting items 4A and 4B, Ashley Furniture, Minor General Plan Amendment and Rezone, applications PL 21-0140 and 0141. There we go. So the purpose of these items are to review a proposed minor general plan amendment and rezone for Ashley Furniture, conduct separate public hearings for each item, and take action on each item. So the site, it's located at the northwest corner of 107th Avenue and Roosevelt Street. It's outlined in red on the left. It's about 75 gross acres and was annexed into the city limits in 1986. It is currently being used for farming. The applicant is requesting to rezone the site from the Avondale Gateway PAD to the Ashley Furniture PAD. We also have a request for a comprehensive sign plan that does include a freeway pylon sign that's included as an exhibit in the staff report. And then in terms of the surrounding zoning districts and land uses north of the I-10 freeway from west to east, there's some vacant land, zone C2, a hospital zone C3, two medical facilities, zoned PAD, and a site with some future commercial uses, zone both C3 and PAD. And then east of 107th Avenue, there are vehicle dealerships on the Avondale Automal PAD, south of Roosevelt Street, their single family homes zoned the Roosevelt Park PAD, some vacant land zone PAD, and then there's a multifamily community zone to Boulevard, and then to the west of the project is some vacant land in the Avondale Gateway PAD. So here's a couple of photos of the site. The first is looking southeast from the I-10 freeway, and the second is looking northwest from 107th Avenue. In terms of the uses, the applicant is requesting custom uses for the Ashley Furniture component of the project. This does include a call center, office, late manufacturing and assembly, retail sales, and warehousing and distribution.