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Imagine Nashua
Master Plan
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Introduction
What is Imagina Nashua?
Why Plan Now?
Vision and Core Values
Planning Procress
Community Engagement and Outreach
Top Goals and Actions
Land Use and Development
Mobility and Transit
Housing
Economic Development
Open Space and Environment
Arts and Culture
Additional Goals and Actions
Land Use and Development
Mobility and Transit
Housing
Economic Development
Open Space and Environment
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Land Use and
Development
Learn more about the
Master Plan’s Top goals
on page 52.
Top Goal: Housing
Accessibility
Create a greater mix of housing
types that are accessible
to Nashua residents at
all life stages, household
compositions, physical abilities,
and socioeconomic levels as
identified in the 2020 City
Housing Study.
Mobility and Transit
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Economic
Development
Open Space and
Natural Resources Arts and Culture
Top Goal: Parks and
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Nashua’s green network:
Enhance access to and better
connect Nashua’s existing open
space network for citizens of all
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Top Goal: Mitigation of
Climate Change Impacts
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change on the community and
encourage public health.
Top Goal: Diversity
Celebrate and integrate
the diversity of cultures,
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Top Goal: Arts and
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Prioritize arts and culture as an
important aspect of inclusive
economic development and
strengthening placemaking in
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Redevelopment
Retrofitting Major Corridors
Amherst St Corridor
Considered the most important
large-scale site for long-term
planning for Nashua, Imagine
Nashua proposes retrofitting
this major corridor to be more
attractive and coherent, and
promote local business activity.
Priority Redevelopment Site
Daniel Webster College
Integrate the Daniel Webster
College site into its surround-
ings by developing an appropri-
ately-scaled neighborhood.
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Enhancing Interchange Streets
Broad St
Leverage Broad Street’s strate-
gic location by considering
upzoning, improved urban
design and enhancing ground
floor retail.
Industrial Repositioning
Northeastern
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Reposition the Northeastern
Boulevard commercial area by
encouraging higher density
development and appropriate
placemaking.
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Redevelopment Site
Beazer Site
Plan appropriate development
in the Beazer remediation site
with a phased strategy for
mixed use primarily focused on
medium-density single and
potential multifamily housing.
Building Cohesive Mixed-use
Districts + TOD
East Hollis St
Build East Hollis St area as
cohesive and vibrant mixed-use
district anchored by develop-
ment of future commuter rail
station on 25 Crown St.
Improving Public Realm
Main St
Facilitate public realm expan-
sion and improvement on Main
St to maintain downtown’s
commercial activity.
Retrofitting Major Corridors
+ TOD
Daniel Webster Hwy
Retrofit this major corridor by
making it more attractive and
coherent to promote local
business activity, though with a
much more tentative outlook
and timeline than Amherst St.
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What Is Imagine Nashua?
Comprehensive citywide plans
Balanced approach to development
Why Plan Now?
Need for growth
Addressing climate change
Embracing inclusivity and diversity
Measuring and defining success
Vision and Core Values
Equity, Resilience, Climate Protection
Planning Process and Framework
Timeline
How to use this plan
Comprehensive Master Plan
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What Is Imagine
Nashua?
Imagine Nashua Is the City’s comprehensive
planning process—an initiative that combines
inclusive community engagement with major plans
created in the past 20 years to craft an innovative
vision for the future of Nashua. This master plan
reflects the voices of Nashua’s diverse communities,
and places a key focus on equity, resilience, and
climate protection as core values guiding growth and
clevelopment in the city.
In 2020, the City of Nashua
embarked on a year-long
comprehensive planning process
to update its citywide master
plan. In the midst of challenges
associated with the COVID-19
pandemic, critical narratives
centered around addressing racial
and social inequity in the country,
and larger concerns for climate
change impacts on our local and
regional ecosystems, the Imagine
Nashua planning process did not
take a step back, and felt it was
important to engage the Nashua
community—now more than ever—
in crafting a sustainable roadmap
for the future, one which places
equity, resilience and climate
protection at its core.
Comprehensive
Citywide Plans
Comprehensive citywide plans are
a primary tool for setting long-
term policy goals for a community,
most of which require sustained
effort beyond the career spans
of individual civil servants or
elected officials. For this reason,
comprehensive plans must be
rooted in engagement efforts, to
ensure that community consensus,
along with topical expertise, helps
direct the long-term vision. While
the plan is not, in itself, a binding
ordinance, many tools the City can
employ—most notably zoning—are
to be in accordance with sucha
master plan. A primary purpose
of this plan is to describe the
intent behind many of the policies
and programs the City of Nashua
intends to implement in the
coming years and decades.
The Imagine Nashua
Comprehensive Citywide Plan—
from here onwards referred to
simply as Imagine Nashua—places
a document-wide focus on equity,
resilience, and climate protection
as core values driving the vision
and framework of the plan. These
three core values bind the six plan
topic areas or elements important
to the Nashua community: land
use and development, economic
growth and development, housing,
mobility and transit, open space
and the environment, and arts and
culture.
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In-person library event showcasing the
Plan’s draft recommendations.
Comprehensive Master Plan
NH Citywide Master Plans
While not every plan topic is
required by statutory law to be
included in the master plan,
in New Hampshire, a land use
section—providing an overview
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proposed location, extent, and
intensity of future land use—is
an important and required
element of a master plan.
