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determination or direction of the City of Nashua. If the parties are unable to resolve their dispute
as described above within 30 days, the parties may request that the dispute be submitted to the
Board of Public Works for resolution. If the parties are dissatisfied with the decision of the Board
of Public Works, the parties’ reserve the right to pursue any available legal and/or equitable
remedies for any breaches of this contract except as that right may be limited by the terms of this
contract.

NO DAMAGES FOR DELAY Apart from a written extension of time, no payment, compensation,
or adjustment of any kind shall be made to Professional Engineer for damages because of
hindrances or delays in the progress of the work from any cause, and Professional Engineer
agrees to accept in full satisfaction of such hindrances and delays any extension of time that the
City of Nashua may provide.

INSURANCE Professional Engineer shall carry and maintain in effect during the performance of
services under this contract:

> General Liability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 per occurrence; $2,000,000
aggregate;
> $1,000,000 Combined Single Limit Automobile Liability;
*Coverage must include all owned, non-owned and hired vehicles.
> $1,000,000 Profession Liability;
> and Workers' Compensation Coverage in compliance with the State of New
Hampshire statutes, $100,000/$500,000/$ 100,000.

Professional Engineer shall maintain in effect at all times during the performance under this
contract all specified insurance coverage with insurers. None of the requirements as to types and
limits to be maintained by Professional Engineer are intended to and shall not in any manner limit
or qualify the liabilities and obligations assumed by Professional Engineer under this
contract. The City of Nashua shall not maintain any insurance on behalf of Professional
Engineer. Subcontractors are subject to the same insurance requirements as Professional Engineer
and it shall be the Professional Engineer’s responsibility to ensure compliance of this
requirement.

Professional Engineer will provide the City of Nashua with certificates of insurance for coverage

as listed below and endorsements affecting coverage required by the contract within ten calendar
days after the City of Nashua issues the notice of award. The City of Nashua requires thirty days
written notice of cancellation or material change in coverage. The certificates and endorsements
for each insurance policy must be signed by a person authorized by the insurer and who is
licensed by the State of New Hampshire. General Liability and Auto Liability policies must
name _the City of Nashua_as an additional insured and reflect on the certificate of
insurance. Professional Engineer is responsible for filing updated certificates of insurance with
the City of Nashua's Risk Management Department during the life of the contract.

> All deductibles and self-insured retentions shall be fully disclosed in the certificate(s) of
insurance.
> If aggregate limits of less than $2,000,000 are imposed on bodily injury and

property damage, Professional Engineer must maintain umbrella liability insurance of at
least $1,000,000. All aggregates must be fully disclosed on the required certificate of
insurance.

> The specified insurance requirements do not relieve Professional Engineer of its
responsibilities or limit the amount of its liability to the City of Nashua or other
persons, and Professional Engineer is encouraged to purchase such additional
insurance, as it deems necessary.

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Ae el ies

As our community was managing the COVID-19
crisis and the long-term effects on our residents and
businesses, we felt it was extremely important not
to delay this process. What better way to emerge
from acrisis than hearing from our community and

setting forth a plan to come back with goals that
improve the overall quality of life for all residents
and ensure a more resilient community into the
future.

Imagine Nashua provided the
platform to engage in an inclusive
citywide discussion on how to
manage and plan for equitable
and sustainable growth and
redevelopment in the city. Through
multiple outreach efforts, the
planning team heard the concerns
of Nashua residents around
density, redevelopment, home
prices, climate change, carbon
emissions, the commuter rail,
traffic, walkability, and many other
cross-cutting issues, which we
will focus on through the rest of
this plan. This plan is for all those
who live, work, and visit Nashua
today and tomorrow. We aspire

to make Nashua a vibrant and
livable community for not only
those who reside and look for
opportunities here today, but for
future generations to come.

Need for Growth
and Densification

Planning for and managing growth
is the central component of the
Imagine Nashua Plan, as the City
continues to expand its fiscal
health and provide opportunities,
resources, and amenities to its
residents. Nashuans love their city
for its small town feel and sense
of community, and the access
they have to a variety of open
Spaces and natural resources.
Nashua as a city, is also growing
in both its resident population and

employment base and in order

to accommodate this growth,

while continuing to protect and
maintain established and natural
areas, requires critical reshaping of
current land use code and zoning
regulations that potentially act

as a barrier to more sustainable
development.

Meeting Housing
Needs for

a Changing
Population

Nashua is experiencing a rapid
aging of its resident population.
Findings from the 2020 Housing
Study show that much of Nashua’s
housing growth and demand is
being fueled by residents aged
55 and older and are driving
demand for smaller units that
can comfortably housing single-
and two-person households. In
addition, Nashua’s proximity to
more expensive housing markets
in Massachusetts has also made
the city desirable for young
professionals, young families,
and retirees. Planning for more
affordable housing and a mix of
housing choices for these two
growing age cohorts—millennials
and empty nesters, is essential
to the Imagine Nashua housing
strategy and requires creating
more variety and density of
housing types to accommodate
future generations.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Why densification is
Tare

While these generational shifts
and trends are not unique to
Nashua or even New England,
the competitive advantages
the planning teams sees for
Nashua across all of the topic
areas remain valuable only if
Nashua continues to provide
for its population both now and
into the future. Densification
will enable Nashua to grow ina
more sustainable way by:

Connecting jobs and
opportunities with people
and homes

Concentrating
development efforts,
infrastructure investment,
and avoiding urban sprawl
Promoting walkability,
reducing traffic congestion
autombolile use, and GHG
emissions

Preserving open space and
natural resources

Housing Opportunity

If the City is looking to create
more housing opportunities
to accommodate future
population and employment
growth, multi-family and
mixed-use development
utilizes less land area per
unit than any other housing

typology.

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As we plan redevelopment in the city, we must be cognizant of how
new growth impacts different groups in the city and ensure access to
opportunities for all residents to succeed.

Total Population Change 1970-2030

Nashua has seen a steady rise in population since 1970 with an
increase of nearly 30,000 new residents. Nashua can expect this growth
to continue through the year 2030 adding another 8,000 residents.

110,000

100,000

90,000

86,605 86,494 86,766
80,000
79,662

70,000
67,865
60,000

55,820
50,000 :

40,000
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2013 2018 2025 2030

Source: NHGIS, ACS 2013, 2018, EMSI, RKG Associates

Change in Age Structure 2011-2019

Residents in Nashua are aging in place; the fastest growing age cohort
in the city are residents 55 years and older. Nashua will need to
consider the types of shifts in policy, housing and job creation, unit size,
and approaches to public space that will best meet the needs of this
changing population.

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Under18 18-24yrs 25-34yrs 35-44yrs 45-54yrs 55-64yrs 65+yrs

Source: NHGIS, ACS 2011, 2019

Doing Our Part to
Address Climate
Change

Nashua must do its part to combat
climate change as a member of

a regional and global community
dedicated to making the world

a more sustainable and better
place to live. As we write this plan,
the City of Nashua has already

set several larger resilience and
sustainability goals and has
undertaken many actions and
initiatives to advance these goals.
In 2017, Nashua’s Environment
and Energy Committee, EEC, was
formed after Mayor Jim Donchess
pledged allegiance to the Mayor
National Climate Action Agenda,
in which he and 273 other mayors
across the country agreed to
uphold the values and goals of the
Paris Climate Agreement.

The EEC set sustainability-
focused recommendations,
including goals to cut municipal
greenhouse gas emissions by 25
percent by 2025 and to power
municipal buildings with 100
percent clean energy sources by
2025. Since then, the City has
invested in solar panels on its fire
and transit facilities totalling 230
kW of solar generation capacity,
and the City’s two hydroelectric
facilities produced 20,297 MWhrs
of power in 2019. The city used
260,000 kWh of electricity in 2020
that was generated from solar
power.

Embracing
Inclusivity and
Diversity

Nashua’s population is diversifying
and with it comes income disparity.
Findings from the 2020 Nashua
Housing Study showed that

White and Asian households in
Nashua have significantly higher
household incomes than Black,
Hispanic and Latino households.
This greatly impacts their ability to
pay rents and mortgages, contain
cost burdening as prices escalate,
and find affordable housing
options in the city. It may also be
impacting their ability to enter the
homeownership market over time
as prices continue to rise. While
Nashua remains largely white, the
shift over the past few years is
indicative of a larger trend that is
expected to continue.

Alongside the generational
shifts, Nashua will need to consider
the types of shifts in policy,
housing and job creation, unit size,
and approaches to public space
that will best meet the needs of its
changing population. As we plan
redevelopment in the city, we must
be cognizant of how new growth
impacts different groups in the city
and ensure access to opportunities
for all residents to succeed.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Nashua’s Energy and
Environment Committee

The Environment and Energy
Committee’s purpose is

to further sustainability

and livability in Nashua by
promoting environmental
stewardship and renewable
energy, encouraging

energy conservation and
energy efficiency, reducing
environmental impacts and
encouraging green initiatives
both within the municipality
and beyond to reach
businesses and residents.
The Committee is encouraged
to recommend municipal
energy and energy efficiency
projects that would result in
cost savings for the City. The
Committee will advise the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen
on environmental and energy
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Imagine VEGA

Population by Race and Ethnicity

90%

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The need for growth and densification directly relates to all three
values of equity, resilience and climate protection. Increasing market
supply of housing is a major strategy for curbing the rise in housing
prices and for increasing options for different household types, a more
diverse housing stock is a large component of social resilience, and
multifamily units lead to much lower carbon emissions per household.

@ 2013 2018

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Nashua’s Climate Goals

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100% renewable energy Invest in renewable
by 2050 energy resources

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Reduce municipal Purchase alternative fuel
emissions 20% by 2025 public transit vehicles

Source: https://www.livablenashua.org/

Nashua’s population is
diversifying. The number of
Black, Asian, and Hispanic/
Latino residents increased
between 2013 and 2018
but White and Asian
households continue to
earn 2.5+ times the income
as Black and Hispanic/
Latino households. This has
impacts on affordability,
ability to pay for housing,
and concentrations of lower
income households in
certain parts of the city.

Source: ACS 2013, 2018, RKG
Associates

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Implement a bikeshare
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Measuring and
Defining Success

Looking at these issues, it becomes
clearer how equity, resilience, and
climate protection cut across all of
the plan’s topic areas, and are even
interwoven within each other. The
need for growth and densification,
for example, directly relates to all
three lenses—increasing market
supply of housing is a major
strategy for curbing the rise in
housing prices and for increasing
options for different household
types, a more diverse housing
stock is a large component of
social resilience, and multifamily
units lead to much lower carbon
emissions per household.

For this reason, this plan
includes, beyond goals and
recommendations for each
topic area, a shorter set of “top
goals,” which tend to cut across
these lenses. While the full set of
topics and recommendations are
important for all city departments
to help implement over the next
decades, this plan feels that
the top goals are the particular
priorities that will get the most
policy bang for the literal and
proverbial buck.

These top goals, then, need to be
measurable and implementable.
Each top goal has an additional set
of metrics and targets that can be
used to see progress over time.
While these metrics cannot fully
encompass what it means for one
of these goals to be achieved, they
still serve as markers of progress.
In addition to being tied to

top goals, the larger set of
recommendation prioritizations
is the biggest way to implement
the ideas in this plan. Each
recommendation is marked as
near-, mid-, or long-term. In
addition to seeing outcomes

via the metrics, seeing different
recommendations and their
timeframes is a secondary way

to measure progress and success
with this plan.

Comprehensive Master Plan

A living document

Imagine Nashua is intended
to bea “living” document
allowing for periodic

review, reconsideration and
adjustment, and recognizes
that modification of goals and/
or actions may be required to
reflect changing conditions
and ongoing concerns in the
city. The success of this master
plan should not be measured
by an ideal end-state, but
instead by how well we follow
through with actions and
recommendations suggested
in this plan.

Imagine {ERIE

Implementation
Report Card

Metrics baseline —> 2030 target

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Land Use and
Development

Housing Accessibility

Quality of roads: Pavement

Housing units (increase from

Condition Index (PCI) base) - Housing Study

69.9 —>86.2

Bike lane miles (on/off-road, Housing affordability: cost burden
paved) - rental

10.5 —>20

Housing affordability: cost burden
- owner

The metrics above give us a current
snapshot of Nashua and will help
us to Measure Our Success Moving
forward. Each metric is connected
to one of Imagine Nashua’s top
goals by topic area and sets a
quantifiable outcome that will
enable the city to assess how close
we are to meeting the long-term
vision of this plan. While no single
metric can capture everything
about a top goal or vision, the
purpose of this report card is to
assess the metrics collectively to
understand our current state and
our future progress.

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Vision Element

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Mobility and Transit

% Households within 1/4 mile of
Transit stop 81% —>85%

Pedestrian Walkability: % of most
walkable roads 39% —>55%

Bicycle Traffic Stress: % of least
stressful roads 30% —>40%

Mean Travel Time to Work

(minutes) 27 —>25

Community power program

0—>90%

Number of buildings with Solar

447 —>504

kW of Solar Capacity installed in
Nashua 2444 —> 5763

Green buildings 17 —>30

Electric Car Charging Stations:
Level 2and36 —>18

Economic
Development

Economic opportunity — jobs per

worker 1.13 —>1.0

Households with broadband
internet access

89% —>100%

Number of Advanced Placement
(AP) and Career and Technical
Education (CTE) Courses offered
in public HS 42 —>48

Annual total building permits

4007 —>4848

Number of Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise (DBE)
businesses

9—>20

Growth in number of businesses

4101 —>4183

Open Space and
Natural Resources

Parks and Natural Areas

Share of parkland per resident/
acres of parkland per 1000
residents

11 —>12

Miles of trails (paved/unpaved)

48 —>52

Permanently protected open
space (acres)

1440 —>1550

Mitigation of Climate

Change Impacts

Municipal Greenhouse gas
emissions (metric ton CO2e)

101K —>73K

Maintain percent impervious
surface

43% —>43%

Comprehensive Master Plan

Arts and Culture

Diversity

Income disparity:

Black median household income
(MHI) as % of white MHI
77% —>85%

Hispanic/Latino MHI as % of white
MHI
66% —>75%

Arts and Culture

Direct economic activity of Arts
and culture spending

11M —>21M
Public Events 182 —>350

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Vision and Core Values

Imagine Nashua Vision Statement:

“Nashua is committed to being a welcoming,
diverse, and forward-thinking city that offers a
variety of economic, housing, educational, and

recreational opportunities throughout a vibrant and

resilient community that provides a high quality of
life.”