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Main Street between Otterson and

Salmon Brook

Urban Design Intent

‘The urban design intent in this area is to
concentrate Downtown’s retail growth
potential in a second retail node along
Main Street South by creating mixed-use
buildings with mandatory, traditional
retail storefronts on the round floor.
Broad sidewalks, street trees, on-street
parking, awnings, and active storefronts
will create a vibrant pedestrian-oriented

retail node.

Nashua Downtown Master Plan

Massing 88
(sop)

One to three story

buildings should be

simple, well-

proportioned masses

that front the street.

Siting

(second)

Buildings must be
located on the sidewalk,
with multiple entries to

multiple storefronts.

Easement

{third}

A front easement is
required to create a
broad sidewalk. The
rear easement is
required to provide
access to parking, service
and and a clear

circulation system.

Parking and
Pedestrian
ci

(bottom)

Each block should have
a mid-block pedestrian
connection. This path
can be either interior to
the building or an
exterior walkways to
access parking behind
the buildings.

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Residential Design Guidelines Typical massing of 89

The Master Plan identifies several sites houses (top)
throughout Downtown for new housing.

These sites fall into two categories: (1) Detait of
tail of entrance

extensions and insertions into old neigh-
(second)

borhoods and (2) former commercial or
industrial sites.

The architectural character of new Perspective of Bronstien
housing should be based upon traditional Homes (bottom)
patterns found throughout and proven
successful in Downtown Nashua. Adher-
ence to guidelines is more critical on sites
adjacent to or within existing neighbor-
hoods.

Essential characteristics of housing
adjacent to or within existing neighbor-
hoods:

* simple, straightforward volumes with

gabled or hipped roofs

* windows and doors with wide but

vertical proportions

* simplified details and trim

* orderly, but not necessarily symmet-
rical relationships between windows,
doors, and overall building mass

* buildings setback approximately 20

feet from the sidewalk, consistent

with surrounding houses, providing a

shallow yard zone.

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1v Implementation

The Master Plan will be implemented over ten years. Upon
completion, approximately 500 new residential units, and
500,000 square feet of new square feet of commercial space
will be added to Downtown Nashua. In addition, with con-
struction of a new Performing Arts Center, The Center for
Nashua Heritage and Future Technology, riverfront parks, and
trail connections, the downtown will be strengthened as the
region's center for cultural and entertainment, and recreational
networks.

Completion of this Master Plan will create two legacies.
The first will be a revitalized downtown with a diversified
economy that benefits all residents of Nashua. Downtown
Nashua will become the soul of the region, and a critical com-
ponent to the region's superior quality of life.

Second and equally important will be the legacy of part-
nerships and civic cooperation that are critical to realize the
visions of this Master Plan. The Master Plan should not be
thought of as a way to spend scarce public dollars - rather it
should be thought of as a way to form partnerships, raise capi-
tal, and leverage resources.

The ideas set forth in this plan come from the vested inter-
ests of the City’s diverse body of residents and investors. They
rely on a coordinated, cooperative and active public sector
working in tandem with an entrepreneurial private sector. The
results of this private-public partnership will benefit current

and future generations of Nashuans.

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Phasing of Priority Projects

The priority projects within the first

phase of implementation will include

* Main Street South (Design and
Engineering)

* Bronstein Homes (Design and Hope
VI Application)

* Broad Street Parkway (Design and
Engineering)

+ One Way Street Conversion Study

+ Center for Nashua Heritage and
Future Technology (fundraising)

The priority projects within the second

phase of implementation (years 3-6) will

include:

* Main Street South (begin construc-
tion)

* Broad Street Parkway (begin con-
struction)

* Bronstein Homes (begin construc-
tion)

* Riverfront Parks (design and engi-
neering)

* Performing Arts Center (feasibility
study)

+ Center for Nashua Heritage and
Future Technology (design)

The priority projects within the final

phase of the implementation will

include:

* Riverfront Parks and related develop-
ment projects (construction)

+ Center for Nashua Heritage and
Future Technology

(construction)

* Performing Arts Center

(construction)

Phasing Diagram
Design, Engineering,
Feasibility and
Fundraising for
primary projects
described in the Master
Plan are shown in blue
Primary construction
projects are shown in
red; Phase One : (years
1-3) (tp)

Phase Tuo: (years 3-6}
(middle)

Phase Three: (years 7-
10} (bottom)

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Bronstein Homes

(top)
Oumership

(bottom)
Tlustrative Plan

Acquisition and Strategy most cases much of the required property 92
Many of the Master Plan initiatives, par- is either owned by a single private entity

ticularilly those listed in the previous sec- or by a public body.

tion as priority projects will be relatively

simple to implement because of the lack

of complicated property acquisition. In

Private Ownership
Public Ownership

Institutional Ownership

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Riverfront West
Park

(top)
Ownership

(bottom)
Tlustrative Plan

Private Ownership
Public Ownership
Institutional Ownership

93

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Park and Sa =

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Performing Arts
Center

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Oumership

(bottom)
Tlustrative Plan

O O Private Ownership
Public Ownership
Oo Institutional Ownership

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Broad Street Park-
way

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Oumership

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Tlustrative Plan

Nashua Center For
Heritage and
Future Technology

(left)
Oumership

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Tlustrative Plan

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Key
OO Os Private Ownership
Public Ownership
Oo

Institutional Ownership

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Board of Aldermen — 1/26/16 Page 5

R-16-006
Endorser: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.
RELATIVE TO THE TRANSFER OF $200,000 FROM DEPARTMENT 194 “CONTINGENCY”,
ACCOUNT #70100 “GENERAL CONTINGENCY” INTO VARIOUS ACCOUNTS FOR
RETIREMENT AND UTILITY COSTS
Given its first reading; assigned to the BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE by President McCarthy

NEW BUSINESS — ORDINANCES — None
PERIOD FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
Ms. Mary Elizabeth Carroll, 9 % Chandler Street

I’d like to talk about the environment. | was here last year. There was a chemical spill in November of
2013 and | reported it to four or five people but they didn’t do anything. I’ve been in the hospital six times
because of this in the last two years. | went to my mother’s again in 2015 and her chairs were
contaminated in her kitchen and | got an electric shock. There were three houses in Lowell that were
pretty bad with the airborne chemicals. | am going to go to the Lowell Board of Health and report it when
| find out where it is. | went to the Marblehead Board of Health in January because my mother’s clothes
at Christmas were really bad. | thought | was going into cardiac arrest; | doubled up in pain and had an
itchy contamination feeling. | saw the chemicals on my mother’s jacket; six pieces on her arm and six on
her back. | told her and she didn’t believe me because she couldn’t feel it. It is an allergy like the bed
bugs. Body lice is an allergy too and my whole family thinks I’m crazy over that. People have a right to
know what is in their skin. The environmental health lady in Nashua is keeping her mouth shut and that’s
not right. The President of the United States told us all about the Ebola Virus because he cares. It’s
winter now so we can’t see anything now but in April | want some help.

Mr. Bernie Cody, 22 Greenley Street

| have a question on R-15-001. What exactly are they going to improve downtown?

President McCarthy

We can’t really respond to questions during the public comment period but I’m sure Alderman Clemons
would be willing to respond during Remarks by Members of the Board.

Mr. Cody

When is the city going to start cleaning sidewalks when it snows? It’s not being done because on East
Hollis Street, they are not clean at all. People in electric wheelchairs have to ride on the street.

REMARKS BY THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman Wilshire

The Nashua Police Department has been notified by the U.S. Department of Justice that the drug
forfeiture funds that they have been receiving have been put on hold. Apparently it’s to balance the
federal budget. | reached out to the delegation; Ayotte, Shaheen and Kuster to see what information
they could give us because it’s big money for the Nashua Police Department. It funds their narcotics unit
and in a time when we are having such an opioid crisis. There were 350 deaths in New Hampshire last
year so it’s not a good time to cut money. If you are interested in this please feel free to reach out to
your delegation.

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DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Nashua Downtown Master Plan

Key

C1 New Streets
Improved Streets
1 Parks and Trails
1 Parking Structures

Public Infrastruc- 96
ture

The Master Plan

recommends public

action be taken to crate
infrastructure that will
leverage substantial

private investment.

Infrastructure
Quantities

The table below is to be
used to generate
preliminary estimates of
costs, Locally
appropriate per unit
costs can be applied to
the values in the table.

Riverfront Riverfront Railroad Main Street Main Street Total
West East Square North South
New Streets 10,650 If 3,150 If 0 6501 250 If 14,700 If
Improved Streets 6,350 If 0 700 If 2,200 If 4700 If 13,950 If
Parks 8.2 acres 7.5 actes 0 .7 acres 6.4 acres 22.8 acres
Parking Structures 520 spaces 0 0 640 spaces 300 spaces 1,460 spaces
Trails outside 9,600 If 250 If 0 3,300 If 0 13,1501

Parks