{"id":173455,"date":"2023-01-11T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173455"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:27:06","slug":"city-of-chandlers-data-center-ordinance-now-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/?p=173455","title":{"rendered":"City of Chandler\u2019s Data Center Ordinance Now in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Chandler has joined a small list of cities across the nation to adopt a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chandleraz.gov\/government\/departments\/development-services\/planning-and-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zoning code<\/a> amendment to define the location and operation of data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The approved amendment includes the following provisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishes a new section of the zoning code (Chapter 35, Section 2214) specifically to address data centers<\/li>\n<li>Clarifies data centers as a primary use only permitted in planning area development (PAD) zoning designations<\/li>\n<li>Clarifies data centers as an ancillary use, including size limitations, purpose, and location on-site<\/li>\n<li>Establishes a detailed communications protocol to notify impacted residents about pre- and post-construction, including required neighborhood meetings and an on-site liaison<\/li>\n<li>Requires a pre-construction sound study to establish noise baseline with results provided to residents prior to a scheduled neighborhood meeting<\/li>\n<li>Requires sound mitigation measures to ensure noise levels from a data center does not exceed levels observed during baseline study<\/li>\n<li>Requires the data center to conduct an annual noise study during peak operation times for five years once construction of the data center is complete<\/li>\n<li>Establishes backup generator routine maintenance and testing time limitations, including notification protocol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Data centers have evolved throughout the years from single-user facilities to larger multi-tenant facilities and transitioned from water-cooled to electrically-cooled facilities. Due to those changes, there has been an increase in potential noise impacts to the surrounding neighborhoods. Over the years, Chandler has required increased levels of noise study\/mitigation efforts, public outreach, and regulations regarding backup power generators.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance was unanimously approved on Dec. 5, 2022 and took effect on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Find more information through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chandleraz.gov\/government\/departments\/development-services\/planning-and-zoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chandler\u2019s Planning Division<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Chandler has joined a small list of cities across the nation to adopt a zoning code amendment to define the location and operation of data centers. The approved amendment includes the following provisions: Establishes a new section of the zoning code (Chapter 35, Section 2214) specifically to address data centers Clarifies data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-173455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-compliance","tag-hot-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.inbusinessphx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}