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Chandler, AZ
Restaurants, personal service businesses and office conversions
have made use of the benefits offered in Chandler’s program. The
program aims to encourage and facilitate the reuse of existing
buildings that are underutilized or underperforming within certain
areas of the City by:
• Modifying site development standards that would otherwise
make reusing an existing building economically unfeasible
• Reducing, simplifying or eliminating processes required for
adaptive reuse projects
• Providing clear, understandable, predictable and consistent
development standards that ensure adaptively reused build-
ings will be compatible with existing and future development
• Facilitating development proposals that are responsive to
current and future market conditions

In order to qualify as an Adaptive Reuse project, it must be:
• Built before 1990
• Less than 15,000 square feet (including any proposed addi-
tions)
• Less than 30,000 square feet lot
• Commercially zoned property that is in the Adaptive Reuse
Overlay District

i. Typical Solutions in Chandler
• Reduced parking requirements
• Reduced landscaping requirements
• Reduced sprinkler requirements
• Cost-sharing of infrastructure improvements

Civic Market is one of Chandler’s adaptive reuse program success stories.

Adaptive Reuse Strategy Paper 9