4 March 5 - 18, 2011 Intel expands in Ocotillo
Construction will begin in Southern Chandler later this year on Intel Corporation’s new $5 billion chip manufacturing facility.
The new factory, designated Fab 42, will be “the most advanced, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world.” According to Intel, building the new fab enables the company to manufacture more powerful and effi cient computer chips. Construction is expected to be completed in 2013.
The announcement was made by Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini at an Intel facility in Hillsboro, OR with President Barack Obama in attendance. “Manufacturing serves as the underpinning for our business and allows us to provide customers and consumers with leading-edge products in high volume,” explains Brian Krzanich, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Manufacturing and Supply Chain. “The unmatched scope and scale of our investments in manufacturing help Intel maintain
Council OK’s medical marijuana ordinance by Sara Dalton, ASU journalism student
Chandler may have the toughest medical marijuana ordinance in the Valley, according to a pro medicinal marijuana representative.
On a 5-2 vote, with Councilmembers Heumann and Sellers casting the opposing votes, the council decided the distance between medicinal marijuana facilities and hospitals must be at least a quarter of a mile. “The distancing requirement from hospitals is exactly the opposite of what voters wanted,” says Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association. “I think that unfortunately Chandler just passed what might possibly be the most restrictive ordinance in this Valley.”
City of Chandler Planning Administrator Jeff Kurtz says a marijuana dispensary is likely to be located in a commercial district of the city, while an industrial area will house the facility that actually grows the plants and creates infused products. Arizona Avenue and Germann Road is named as a possible location for a
industry leadership and drives innovation.” Intel manufactures 75 percent of its microprocessors in the United States, while more than 75 percent of Intel’s sales come from outside of the United States. The project is expected to create thousands of construction and permanent manufacturing jobs at Intel’s Chandler site. More in the March 19 issue of the SanTan Sun News.
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“I understand how they’d put restrictions on parks and schools and whatever else is being zoned but having a restriction on the closeness of a hospital is a little counterintuitive,” Chandler resident Andrew Kimura says.
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BUFFER ZONE: A new ordinance requires that no less than a quarter-mile distance exist between hospitals and medical marijuana dispensaries.
dispensary.
Prior to the vote, Smith urged councilmembers to send the proposed ordinance back to the Planning and Zoning Commission for review.
The argument between supporters and those in opposition stems from the theory that since Proposition 203 passed the legal use of medical marijuana, it should be in conjunction with medical facilities. Smith wished the council would treat the medicinal marijuana ordinance like a pharmacy ordinance. “The Arizona Medical Marijuana Association asks the council to realize that this is about people who are really sick and not about recreational use. This matter needs to be looked at like a pharmacy, but the only difference between that and this is that a pharmacy has more dangerous drugs in its inventory,” Smith says.
Sara Dalton is a student at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, writing for class credit.
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