Search

Imagine {ERIE

Plan Contributors

City Staff and
Departments

Imagine Nashua Planning:
Sarah Marchant, Director of
Community Development
Matthew Sullivan, Planning
Department Manager

Julie Chizmas, Transportation/
Long-Range Planner

Advisory:

Tim Cummings, Director of
Economic Development
Doria Brown, Energy Manager

Steering Committee
Members

Mayor James Donchess, Mayor
Cheryl Lindner, Chief of Staff
Amber Logue, Chair of Masterplan
Committee

Scott LeClair, Planning Board Chair
Adam Varley, Planning Board
Member

David Tencza, Chair of PEDC
Raymond Guarino, Nashua School
Board Member

Heather Raymond, Back-up for
School Board Member

Wendy Hunt, Nashua COC
President

Paul Shea, GAD Executive Director
Dan O’ Donnell, Back-up for GAD
(Board President)

John Jurczyk, President of St.
Joseph Hospital

Scott Cote, Designee from SHNMC
Bob James

Raymond Brousseau, BAE
Representative

186

Rabbi Jon Spira-Savett, Ward 1
Resident

Marjorie Bollinger Hogan, Ward 2
Resident

Gene Porter, Ward 3 Resident
Heidi MacDonald, Ward 4 Resident
Gloria McCarthy, Ward 5 Resident
Peter Schaefer, Ward 7 Resident
Mary Ann Melizzi Golja, Ward 8
Resident

Homa Jaferey, Ward 9 Resident

Planning Board Members

Scott, LeClair - Chair

Adam C Varley - Vice Chair
Maggie Harper — Secretary
Michael Pedersen -— Mayor’s
Representative

Robert E Bollinger

Larry Hirsch

Mark Meehan

Dan Hudson - City Engineer
Alderman David Tencza —
Aldermanic Representative
Aldermanic Alternate — Alderman
Jan Schmidt

Organizations (Advisory)

Jay Minkarah - Executive Director,
Nashua Regional Planning
Commission, NRPC

Lindsay Rinaldi, Nashua Arts
Commission

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

Consultant Team

Utile, Urban Planning and Design
(Lead):

Tim Love, Will Cohen, Taskina
Tareen, Elizabeth van der Els,
Andrea Baena

Ninigret Partners, Economic
Development:
Kevin Hively

Landscape and Environment,
Brown Richardson + Rowe:
Dave Andrews, Althea Northcross

Transportation and Environment,
Horsley Witten Group:
Jon Ford, Ellie Baker

Mobility and Transporation,
Toole Design Group:
Karen Fitzgerald, Jake Berman

Contact

Sarah Marchant, AICP
Director of Community
Development
Community Development
Department (CDD)

229 Main Street

Nashua, NH 03060

Imagine@nashuanh.gov
Phone: 603-589-3095
imagine.nashuanh.gov

Image Credits

All photos and images courtesy

of the City of Nashua unless
otherwise noted. If it is determined
that an image in this document is
copyrighted by others, it will be
removed.

City of Nashua:

(Pages 15, 19, 29, 40, 41, 48, 49,
55, 58, 59, 92, 93,97, 104, 105,
107, 147, 149, 152, 154, 155,
166, 181)

Seth J Dewey Photography:
(Pages 1, 4, 5, 6, 190, 191)

WRS, wrs.se:
(Page 66)

workplaceculturesolutions.com:
(Page 67, top)

www.silversandevent.com:
(Page 67, bottom)

Utile:

(Pages 33, 46, 62, 68, 76, 77, 78,
82, 87, 88, 90, 97, 99, 101, 102,
103, 105, 109, 110, 113, 119,
121, 126, 131, 133, 134, 135,
138, 140, 158, 160, 163, 164,
168, 170, 172, 177)

Comprehensive Master Plan

187

Imagine TEENA

Accessory Dwelling Unit
Self-contained apartments, cottages,
or small residential units that are
located ona property that has a
separate main, single-family home,
duplex, or other residential unit.

Affordable Housing

Housing is typically considered
affordable when it consumes no more
than 30 percent of a household’s
income.

Climate Change

Climate change refers to long-

term shifts in temperatures and
weather patterns that are caused

by both natural shifts and human
interventions. Greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions generated by human
activity—are the leading cause of

the earth’s rapidly changing climate
today.

Climate Mitigation

Efforts to make the impacts of
climate change less severe by
preventing or reducing the emission
of greenhouse gases (GHG) into
the atmosphere either by reducing
sources of these gases — e.g. by
increasing the share of renewable
energies or or by enhancing the
storage of these gases — e.g. by
increasing the size of forests.

188

Climate Adaptation

Efforts to prepare for and adjust to the
current and future impacts of climate
change. Examples of adaptation
measures include increasing

energy efficiency of buildings and
transporation to offset energy
consumption caused by extreme
weather, upgrading stormwater
infrastructure to betterwithstand
extreme rainfall events, and individual
behavioral shifts such as reducing food
waste.

Complete Streets

Complete Streets are streets designed
and operated to enable safe use

and support mobility for all users.
Those include people of all ages and
abilities, regardless of whether they
are travelling as drivers, pedestrians,
bicyclists, or public transportation
riders.

Density

(Development) density refers to
the number of developed units ina
specific area of land.

Densification

To further development and encourage
population growth within the
boundaries of a preexisting urban area
rather than expanding outward into
suburban areas.

Empty Nesters
A parent whose children have grown
and moved away from home.

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

Greenhouse Gas

Gas that contributes to the
greenhouse effect by absorbing
infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases
absorb infrared radiation and trap

its heat in the atmosphere, creating
a greenhouse effect that results in
global warming and climate change.

Inclusionary Zoning

Refers to municipal and county
planning ordinances that require a
given share of new construction to

be affordable by people with low to
moderate incomes, also referred to as
inclusionary housing.

Millennials

A parent whose children have grown
and moved away from home. Empter
nesters (and millennials) are identified
as Nashua’s fastest growing age-
cohorts.

Mixed-use Development

Mixes of residential, commercial and
office space within the same buildings
and/or districts.

Multimodal

Transportation and land use planning
that considers diverse transportation
options from walking, cycling, public
transit and automobiles, and accounts
for land use factors that affect
accessibility across all modes.

Equity

Equity means giving everyone access
to resources and opportunities that
they need to improve the quality of
their situation

Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Green Stormwater Infrastructure
(GSI) is a set of tools and practices
that mimic natural methods of storing,
infiltration and/or filtering stormwater.

Infill development

Infill development is the process of
developing vacant or under-used
parcels within existing urban areas
such as Amherst Street or Main Street
that are already largely developed.

Land Use

Broad term encompassing all the
different ways that people use or
develop land for economic, residential,
recreational, conservation and
instituitional purposes

Land Use Code

Regulations that determine what,
where, and how redevelopment

or development can take place in

the city. While land use policy is an
important tool for comprehensive
planning, it must be coordinated well
with other citywide initiatives, policies
and capital investments, and also be
adaptable to change.

Location quotient

Ratios that allow an area’s distribution
of employment by industry, ownership,
and size class to be compared toa
reference area’s distribution - for
example, across the nation.

Low Impact Development (LID)
Land planning and engineering design
approach to manage stormwater
runoff as part of green infrastructure.

Placemaking

Approach to planning, design and
management of public spaces that
focuses on the needs and desires of a
local community.

Public Realm

Publicly owned places and spaces
that belong to and are accessible by
everyone including municipal streets,
lanes, squares, plazas, sidewalks,
trails, parks, open spaces, waterfronts,
public transit systems, conservation
areas, and civic buildings and
institutions.

Remediation

(Site)-remediation is the process of
removing polluted or contaminated
soil, sediment, surface water, or
groundwater, to reduce the impact on
people or the environment

Resiliency

Resiliency embodies a community’s
ability to recover and resolve from
future shocks and stresses to its
social, economic, environmental and
technical and infrastructure systems.
Resilience for a place and community
also means not losing what it means
to be a community, and being able

to essentially maintain the same
functions, systems and identity.

Retrofit

Changing the building systems or
structure after its initial construction
to improve amenities or performance.

Right of Way

The legal right of a pedestrian, vehicle,
or bicycle to proceed with precedence
over others on the road.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
Type of development that encourages
and maximizes residential, business
and leisure space within walking
distance of public transport. TOD aims
to create integrated urban places
designed to bring people, activities,
buildings, and public space together.

Scenario Planning

Urban planning process to support
decision-making that helps urban

and regional planners navigate the
uncertainty of the future in the short
and long term. Scenario planning
enables communities to analyze
multiple plausible versions of the
future in the face of future change and
challenges.

Urban Design

The process of designing and shaping
the physical features of cities including
streets, buildings, parks and public
spaces.

Zoning

Zoning laws regulate the use of land
within a municipality. It controls

the ways in which the land can be
developed and what purposes the
zoned land can serve. Zoning is what
keeps a residential district residential,
acommercial district commercial, an
industrial district industrial, and so on.

Zoning Overlay District

Overlay districts are a land use
planning tool used to create a special
zoning “layer” placed on top of

the base (primary) zoning district.

The overlay district standards may
supplement or supersede those of the
underlying base zoning districts.

189

Tenant

Sei eee
ae —— aw

Kayak Exploration Destinations (N.A.K.E.D.) Group.

R-21-174

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF $25,000 FROM THE STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY, STATE HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT
PROGRAM INTO FIRE GRANT ACTIVITY “2020 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT
PROGRAM”

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty One

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that the City of Nashua and
the Nashua Fire Rescue are authorized to accept $25,000 from the State of New Hampshire,
Department of Safety, State Homeland Security Grant Program into Fire Grant Activity “2020
Homeland Security Grant Program”, for the purpose of purchasing two Hazmat suit dryers and to
provide two members with training on the Hybrid Dry Decontamination System. This funding shail
be in effect through August 31, 2023. No local match is required.

LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021

RESOLUTION: R-21-174
PURPOSE: Relative to the acceptance of $25,000 from the State of New

Hampshire, Department of Safety, State Homeland Security
Grant Program into Fire Grant Activity “2020 Homeland
Security Grant Program”

SPONSOR(S): Mayor Jim Donchess
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT: Human Affairs Committee
FISCAL NOTE: Fiscal impact is a $25,000 grant to be used for a specific
purpose.
ANALYSIS

This resolution authorizes the City to accept funds from the New Hampshire Department of Safety,
State Homeland Security Grant Program for the purpose described in the resolution. No local
match is required.

Approved as to account Financial Services Division
structure, numbers, .

and amount: By: _/s/John Griffin
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

By: pw (arte
Date: 5 Obolacn. DOO

R-21-175

RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF $300,000 FROM THE STATE OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE, DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO POLICE GRANT ACTIVITY
“FY2022 OPIOID ABUSE REDUCTION INITIATIVE (OARI) GRANT”

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty One

RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Nashua that the City of Nashua and
the Nashua Police Department are authorized to accept $300,000 from the State of New
Hampshire, Department of Safety into Police Grant Activity “FY2022 Opioid Abuse Reduction
Initiative (OARD) Grant” for the purpose of investigating and apprehending individuals or
organizations that are involved in opioid related drug use and trafficking. This funding is
contingent upon approval by the Governor and Executive Council and shall be in effect through
June 30, 2022. No local match is required. The Mayor is authorized to enter into any grant
agreement or other documents necessary to further the purposes hereof, including but not limited
to, a memorandum of agreement between the State of New Hampshire Department of Safety, the
State of New Hampshire Division of State Police, the Town of Hudson Police Department, and
the City of Nashua Police Department, substantially similar to the attached.

LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021

RESOLUTION: R-21-175
PURPOSE: Relative to the acceptance of $300,000 from the State of New

Hampshire, Department of Safety into Police Grant Activity
“FY2020 Opioid Abuse Reduction Initiative (OQARID Grant”

SPONSOR(S): Mayor Jim Donchess

COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT: Human Affairs Committee

FISCAL NOTE: Fiscal impact is a $300,000 grant to be used for a specific
purpose. No local match is required

ANALYSIS

This resolution authorizes the City to accept funds from the State for the purpose of investigating
and apprehending individuals or organizations that are involved in opioid related drug use and
trafficking. These funds will be used in conjunction with the Town of Hudson Police
Department in a joint effort. The attached MOA establishes Nashua as the “Grantee” and Hudson
as the “Municipality” where a portion of the rembursements from the State will go directly to
the Town of Hudson after approval by the Nashua Police Department.

Approved as to account number __‘ Financial Services Division

and/or structure, and
amount: By: _/s/John Griffin

Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel

By: Vee Big rhe
Date: G O Cotyba Zorn