Akron City Council voted to approve a conditional‑use ordinance permitting a 387,860‑square‑foot warehouse and distribution facility at 2322 Manchester Road.

Planning staff told the council the building would stand about 43 feet tall with its finished floor set roughly 10 feet below street grade, include 19 truck docks, two employee and local‑delivery parking areas (282 and 155 spaces), shielded site lighting, a proposed 8‑foot sound wall and landscape buffer along the north property line adjacent to homes on Allenford Street and Korber Avenue. A staff‑commissioned traffic study projected roughly 3,774 vehicle trips on a typical weekday, including 294 employee vehicles, 1,581 delivery vehicles and 12 semi trucks; staff and the planning commission recommended approval subject to conditions and continued coordination with city traffic engineering and ODOT.

The applicant, Cody Harrison of AMS, described the site as a sub–same‑day delivery prototype emphasizing quick shipping and said the operation would rely on flex drivers who use their own vehicles rather than a large fleet of delivery vans. “We are a very low truck‑traffic user,” he said, adding the petitioner has worked on architectural upgrades to the east elevation, extended the sound wall to reduce headlight impacts, and is negotiating a deed transfer of a narrow strip of land to three adjacent property owners.

Council moved to pull the item for a favorable committee report and to suspend the rules for immediate passage. After the suspension, the final vote recorded the ordinance as passing 10–1.

Why it matters: The project is one of the largest conditional‑use commercial developments considered by the council this year and would change activity patterns on Manchester Road. Staff emphasized traffic‑mitigation measures and coordination with ODOT; the petitioner committed to neighborhood design features and to working on deed transfers for adjacent parcels.

The ordinance passed and the council closed the public hearing. No additional formal conditions or ordinance numbers were specified on the public record at the meeting; follow‑up details on conditions and permit timing were not specified.