Chandler staff narrow new downtown high-density designation to redevelopment sites

At a Chandler City Council study session on Oct. 13, planning staff briefed council members on a last-minute change to a proposed downtown region area plan update that creates a new land-use designation for high-density residential with integrated uses but restricts it to redevelopment sites only.

The change, presented by city staff member Alisa Pedersen, narrows where the designation can apply and identifies key gateway intersections along Arizona Avenue and at Ray Road, Chandler Boulevard and Pecos Road as focus areas for mixed-use redevelopment. "This applies to, a land use designation that we've just created as part of this downtown region area plan update. This is the high density residential with integrated uses," Pedersen said. She added that "the important change that we made just moments…