Uptick in home building encourages Chandler officials

The pace of Chandler home building is picking up, and that's giving officials hope that the city is on its way out of the recession. City Manager Mark Pentz recently compiled a list of current and past single-family building permit numbers from Chandler and other Valley municipalities at the request of Councilman Jeff Weninger. It shows Chandler's 122 home-building permits so far this year is a big increase over 10 permits for that same period in 2009. And in February, Chandler issued 59 home permits compared with one for that month last year. "I noticed a whole lot of building in my neighborhood, probably 50 homes under construction," said Weninger, who lives in Fulton Ranch. "I wanted to know if this was happening in other parts of the city."

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