City staked future on industry. Chandler’s leaders worked out plan to build housing close to companies

You may have noticed that Chandler not only has a lot of industry, including Intel Corp. with about 10,700 employees but also that the companies are mixed in with housing areas.

The huge Intel plant in south Chandler, for example, is close to the Ocotillo area where houses are priced up to several million dollars.

That’s how the city leaders planned it, starting in the late 1970s. They wanted to create jobs to keep the city from becoming only a bedroom community and to put homes near jobs to cut down on commute times. They demanded large landscaped buffers around the plants.

Betty Beard
The Arizona Republic

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