Residential drafting in Avondale, Arizona

Avondale has some older housing from the 1970s and 1980s, but much of the detached stock a residential drafter encounters is production housing from the 1990s and 2000s. Garden Lakes, Rancho Santa Fe, and Coldwater Springs are typical of that period. Stucco exteriors, tile roofs, attached garages, walled rear yards, and one or two story plans are common.

The mainstream lots are generally compact. Representative neighborhoods often fall in the range of roughly 5,000 to 6,500 square feet, and pools are common in some of the late 1990s tracts. Once the house footprint, patio, pool, equipment, and side access are accounted for, the open rear yard can be considerably smaller than the lot area suggests. Newer communities such as Alamar continue the production pattern but include a wider range of garage sizes and current floor plans.

There is little evidence of an Avondale specific construction system that separates these houses from comparable West Valley tract homes. The practical work is usually more ordinary: confirming which walls carry structure, matching stucco and roof tile, checking the existing slab before alterations, and measuring what has changed since the original house was built.