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Glendale council approves $100,000 contract to modernize zoning code after consultant outlines key code gaps

City of Glendale Common Council · March 11, 2026
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Summary

The council approved a professional-services agreement with Vanderwall & Associates to perform a comprehensive zoning-code rewrite (budgeted at $100,000). Consultant Meredith Perch summarized 14 key issues including district updates, bulk standards, design and mixed‑use districts and a public engagement process.

Glendale — The Common Council voted to hire Vanderwall and Associates to undertake a comprehensive rewrite of the city's zoning code, approving a professional-services agreement budgeted at $100,000 and described by staff as sufficient for a full-code rewrite scope.

Meredith Perch, the consultant who prepared an evaluation memo, told the council the code has seen incremental patchwork updates and recommended a wholesale rewrite to align zoning districts and the land-use map with the…

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