Source-backed project record · AZ

Mesa Data Center Council Use Permit Waivers

This canonical record consolidates 2 source-backed observations without discarding aliases, limitations or unresolved dimensions.

proposed_or_reviewproject status

VERIFIED_PRIMARYbest evidence tier

2linked evidence rows

Project facts

Location and operating record

Operator / developer	Not established in current evidence
Jurisdiction	Maricopa County / Mesa, AZ
Address	Not published
Location precision	locality
Coordinates	null, null
Capacity	Not established
Aliases	Mesa Data Center Council Use Permit Waivers · Mesa Data Center Council Use Permit Waivers — case list

Evidence coverage

What has been researched

Project profile	2 rows
Intent / permits	0 rows
Civic / infrastructure	0 rows

JURISDICTION STACK

Mesa Data Center Council Use Permit Waivers: jurisdiction stack

VERIFIED_PRIMARY

Mesa Ordinance No. 5957 defines "Data Center" as a distinct land use and allows City Council to permit data centers via a Planned Area Development (PAD) overlay used with certain industrial districts; absent a waiver, data centers are restricted to General Industrial (GI) and Heavy Industrial (HI) districts, which the staff analysis notes is under 1% of Mesa's land. Waiver applications must be filed within three years and, once granted and applied to the land, run with the land.

Key data: Ordinance No. 5957; data centers limited to GI/HI absent waiver (<1% of city land); waiver must be filed within 3 years

Limitation: Staff analysis: https://mesa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14316613&GUID=BDA669FE-AA23-446F-836E-8F9A38893914 . An itemized list of individual granted waiver cases was not retrievable — see NOT_FOUND row below.

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NOT FOUND

Mesa Data Center Council Use Permit Waivers: not found

DISCOVERY_LEAD

Attempted to enumerate individual granted Council Use Permit / data center law waiver cases. Mesa's open-data planning-cases extract and Legistar returned design review and rezoning items (e.g., DRB25-00900, DRB25-00647) but no filterable list of granted data center waivers; only the enabling ordinance and the waiver application form were located.

Key data: Enabling framework found (Ordinance 5957 + "Data Center Law Waiver" application); no itemized waiver case list

Limitation: Mesa's data portal extract (data.mesaaz.gov planning cases CSV) does not label data center waivers as a distinct case type in the records reviewed.

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Sources

Evidence and provenance

City of Mesa (Municipal Code Library) ↗ · VERIFIED PRIMARY
Limitation: Staff analysis: https://mesa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14316613&GUID=BDA669FE-AA23-446F-836E-8F9A38893914 . An itemized list of individual granted waiver cases was not retrievable — see NOT_FOUND row below.
City of Mesa ↗ · DISCOVERY LEAD
Limitation: Mesa's data portal extract (data.mesaaz.gov planning cases CSV) does not label data center waivers as a distinct case type in the records reviewed.

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