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Votes at a glance: Glendale City Council, Nov. 25, 2025
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Summary
Council approved consent items and multiple ordinances and resolutions: appointments to boards, a telecommunication license, a DOJ COPS grant to hire eight officers, transit IGA amendment, right-of-way abandonments, acceptance of deeds/easements, ADU and middle-housing zoning changes, and a tobacco/vape age increase to 21. Item 26 was tabled.
Below are the principal formal actions taken by Glendale City Council at the Nov. 25, 2025 meeting. Each action is recorded as presented during the meeting. Where roll-call votes occurred, results are listed; where the record used voice votes, that is noted.
1) Minutes - Motion: Approve minutes of Oct. 28, 2025 voting meeting. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). - Motion: Approve minutes of Nov. 14, 2025 special voting meeting. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
2) Appointments - Motion: Appoint Gary Rowe to the Industrial Development Authority (term to 01/31/2031) and Nikhil Baradwa to Parks & Recreation Advisory Commission (term to 01/20/2030). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). Swearing-in arranged.
3) Consent resolutions (27–29) - R25-110: Authorize city manager license agreement for wired telecommunication right-of-way with Giga Power LLC. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). - R25-111 (paraphrase in reading): Ratify acceptance of U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) award, approximately $1,000,000, for FY25 COPS Hiring Program and authorize hiring of eight additional police officers. Outcome: Approved (voice vote). - R25-112: Authorize amendment No. 12 to the transit services intergovernmental agreement with the Regional Public Transportation Authority. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
4) Consent agenda motion - Motion: Approve consent agenda items 4–25 (single motion). Outcome: Approved (voice vote). - Motion: Table item 26. Outcome: Approved (voice vote).
5) Land use and ordinances - Ordinance O25-45 (ZTA 25-02): Amend Unified Development Code (ADU provisions; owner-occupancy when short-term rental present; gross floor area measurement). Outcome: Adopted (roll-call vote: unanimous). - Ordinance O25-46 (ZTA 25-03): Amend zoning code to add middle-housing provisions in alignment with ARS §9-462.13 and HB 2721 (duplexes–fourplexes in specified areas near the Central Business District). Outcome: Adopted (roll-call vote: unanimous). - Ordinance O25-47: Abandon specified portions of public rights-of-way (various locations including Reams Road corridor) with public-utility easement retention. Outcome: Adopted (roll-call vote: unanimous). - Ordinance O25-48: Accept multiple deeds and easements conveyed to the city for public infrastructure. Outcome: Adopted (roll-call vote: unanimous). - Ordinance O25-49: Amend Chapter 26 to define tobacco and tobacco-related products and raise purchase/consumption age to 21. Outcome: Adopted (roll-call vote: unanimous).
Notes: Where numeric details were provided in the meeting (e.g., approximate $1,000,000 DOJ COPS award, eight new police hires; $22,000 estimate to install a recharge room in DCRP), they are recorded above as presented by staff.
If readers require verbatim motion text or the full roll-call record with individual council votes by name, the city clerk’s official minutes should be consulted. This summary is based on the council meeting transcript of Nov. 25, 2025.
