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Leverage Public
Land for Housing
Production

Reintroduce
First Time Homebuyer
Program

The City should continue to
explore all options such as
deferring tax payments if
affordable housing is included,
selling the land at a significant
discount, or providing a grant or
no interest rate loan for a portion
of the cost.

Expand Rental
and Owner Rehab
Programs

Find ways to either leverage other
funding sources or find ways to
require payment of the loan over
time to build a revolving source of
capital.

Revisit the feasibility of offering
first time homebuyer assistance
in the form of down payment
assistance and closing cost
assistance.

- These two barriers to
homeownership are becoming
more acute as home prices
continue to escalate year over
year making it more difficult
for households to purchase
homes for the first time and
have some ability to move
from rental to ownership
housing.

Evaluate the type of program to
offer and the most effective way
to fund that program.

Employer
Assisted Housing

The City should evaluate a
program to partner with major
employers, like the hospitals, to
gauge interest in partnering over
time on an employer assisted
housing program.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Housing

The City of Nashua currently
offers two separate residential
rehabilitation programs
through the City’s CDBG
Housing Program. The first is
an owner-occupied Housing
Improvement Program (HIP)
which provides 0% interest
loans to correct code, safety,
health, or accessibility issues.

The City also began offering a
rental rehab program to assist
landlords with correcting
serious code, safety, health,
or accessibility issues. Given
the estimated rehabilitation
needs of property just in

the Downtown area alone
(estimated at $12 million),
these two rehabilitation
programs are of critical
importance to improving and
maintaining higher quality
affordable housing across the
City. Keeping these programs
in place and making them
financially sustainable over
time should be a priority for
the City.

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Goal:

Environmental
Sustainability

Promote and support high-
quality, green building design
that is climate-resilient and
energy-efficient.

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

All new
construction and
building renovations
and upgrades should be
designed and maintained
for resource efficiency
and GHG reduction

Recommendation 1

Phase out fossil fuel systems
for heating and appliances
and encourage the retrofit of
full electrification for existing
buildings.

Recommendation 2

Revise land use code to

explore requiring renewable

energy facilities such as solar

installations and energy storage
for new multifamily residential
construction.

- Explore requiring eco-roofs for
all new development. Solar,
solar thermal, green roofs,
white/cool roofs, and blue
roofs all quality.

Adopt incentives
to encourage LEED and
green building standards
as part of land use code.

Push existing
Zoning that encourages
the use of solar, wind,
and renewable energy
systems to incentivize
all new construction to
require renewables.

Adopt zoning to
incentivize preservation
and adaptive reuse to
reduce greenhouse gas
emissions from new
building materials.

Conducta
vulnerability assessment
of the City.

Recommendation 1

Evaluate how historic buildings
will be impacted by future hazards
and determine how to retrofit
buildings to accommodate future
flooding that is compatible with
historic fabric.

Recommendation 2

Encourage all buildings to adopt
energy efficiency upgrades that
are compatible with historic
fabric.

Recommendation 3

Determine zones of impact
throughout the City and provide
guidance on how the community
can prepare for future hazards
based on level of impact.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Housing

Create a passive
house standard for the
City.

Passive house minimizes heating
and cooling loads through

high levels of insulation, high-
performance windows, minimized
thermal bridging, and right-sized
HVAC systems.

Establish
requirements for new
multi-family construction
to include electric vehicle
charging infrastructure,
eco-roofs, and bike-ped
amenities.

With the
expansion on regional
rail, encourage transit
oriented development
by permitting new
development in close
proximity to the train
station.

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Goal:
Form and Design

Encourage use of form

based codes for appropriate
neighborhoods and corridors,
enhancing character and
positively contributing to
livability and surrounding
neighborhoods.

Create design
guidelines for small infill
development projects
which are compatible
with surrounding
neighborhood but ata
higher density than what
Zoning currently allows

Encourage active
ground floor uses to
increase neighborhood
amenities at a scale
that complements
surrounding urban fabric

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

For larger
development sites,
require the development
of a finer grained internal
street and path network
and connecting public
open space.

Encourage the
creation of open spaces
and indoor common
areas in new multi-family
residential development
that are available for use
both by residents of the
new development and
the general public.

Goal:

Livability and
Development
Coordination

Encourage housing
redevelopment opportunities
that align and coordinate with
vibrant mixed-use, mobility
and open space planning.

Work with city
departments to address
the need for increased
infrastructure, including
schools, water, sewers,
health, and safety.

Recommendation 1

Encourage new housing
production in areas served by
existing transit and amenities

Look at actual
demographic patterns
for residents in newer
housing developments
(and using block-level
2020 census data, once
released) to assess the
real impact of housing
construction on potential
increases in school-age
population to accurately
plan for needs.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Housing

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Goal:

Employment
Diversity

Facilitate growth of a strong

and diverse business sector

to expand opportunities and
retain workers, and ensure a
range of jobs that aligns with
local talent and skills.

Action: Encourage growth
in emerging innovation
based economic sectors
centered around medical
devices, robotics,
biosciences, and similar
industry sectors

Action: Continue to
emphasize the role

of quality of place in
attracting the necessary
talent to make these
companies competitive
for workers

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

Action: Encourage the
creation of new types

of work spaces such co-
working, incubators,
boutique consumer
product workshops,
community FabLabs and
other similar type spaces
in Downtown and other
mixed-use development
areas in the city to
support and promote
smaller businesses,
entrepreneurs, and
creative enterprises.

Action: Bolster tourism
through a comprehensive
approach incorporating
a more accessible

river and advancing
recommendations from
the 2017 Downtown
Riverfront Master Plan.

Improved pedestrian experiences
that link amenities, use of public
art to enhance aesthetics, and
curated uses and activities that
encourage vitality

Action: Use City policy
to promote businesses
that adopt sustainable
practices.

Goal:

Location and
Regional Position

Embrace Nashua’s competitive
advantage straddling the

state border between two
metropolitan regions, and

both draw on and contribute to
the employment and housing
markets in both of those
regions.

To better incentivize emerging Downtown Nashua
industries to locate offices in the
city, Nashua must put all pieces

in place necessary to attract
knowledge workers to seek out
Nashua versus other regional
hubs. While this goal does not
necessarily require actions
independent of other city goals, it
does underscore the importance
of transit oriented development,

a mix of work space types,
walkable places and amenities, the
commuter rail, and an increased
number of housing options at
different sizes and price points.

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Goal:

Recreation and
Open Space

Expand and enhance
existing open spaces and
networks through flexible
community programming
and climate adaptation
planning. Balance protection
of Nashua’s environmental
assets with opportunities for
redevelopment.

Action: Establish public
realm guidelines for
street infrastructure,
wayfinding and signage,
landscaping and trees
that align with citywide
urban design strategies
recommended by the
Imagine Nashua Master
Plan

Action: Improve park
amenities and expand
ongoing park creation
and programming
opportunities

Recommendation 1

Clearly identify and communicate
open space opportunities in
conjunction with development
opportunities.

Recommendation 2

Educate developers on benefits of
public realm goals for successful
implementation of design
guidelines or goals.

Recommendation 3

Review the inventory of public
restrooms and recreational
opportunities throughout the
City and consider parks and open
spaces that would benefit from
new facilities or resources.

Recommendation 4

Design gathering spots for
residents and visitors to gather
with neighbors and connect with
new people.

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

Action: Update the
city’s natural resources
inventory

Recommendation 1

Build on ongoing efforts to create
a natural resources inventory
and update inventory with park
improvements.

Recommendation 2

Identify high-value natural
resources areas, and incentivize
development that encourages
public access and use in these
zones.

Recommendation 3

Create digital platform for the
public to easily access the
inventory and create print options
for residents to review the
information.

Comprehensive Master Plan

Open Space and Environment

Goal: Action: Expand youth
programming at citywide

Outreach and park facilities

Education
Recommendation 1

Document and raise public
awareness of Nashua’s
conservation land, open space,
and recreational assets and
promote stewardship through
education and community
engagement opportunities.

Expand environmental
programming at parks to cultivate
respect and appreciation for open
space and stewardship at a young
age.

Recommendation 2

Action: Expand the parks
and recreation social Work with Grow Nashua, Gate

di d b City Community Gardens, and
media and web presence other gardening efforts to develop

a citywide urban gardening
program. Consider parks or
schoolyards to build gardens and
create educational programming

Create open space group on around gardens.
platforms such as facebook or

instagram where residents and
visitors can share events and park
meetups.

Recommendation 1

Recommendation 2

Develop a single repository for
information on the City website
that includes an interactive
web map of open space assets,
including both City-owned and
private properties.

City of Nashua

Purchasing Department
Administrative Services Division (603) 589-3330
229 Main Street - Nashua, NH 03060 Fax (603) 594-3233

May 24, 2022
Memo #22-287

TO: Mayor Donchess
Finance Committee

SUBJECT: Garage Door Replacement Change Order #1 in the amount not to exceed $61,615.70
funded from accounts 81200 Buildings & Improvements/ Escrow

Please see attached communications from Jon lbara, Superintendent of the Street Department, dated May
25, 2022 for project specific details related to this purchase. Below please find a summary of the purchase
approval request:

Item: 5 Garage Bay Door Replacement at the Street Department Garage
Value: Change Order #1: $61,615.70

To Date S: Finance Memo 22-210 $60,560 (12/1/21)

Vendor: Fimbel Garage Doors of Merrimack NH

Department: 161 Streets
Source Fund: 81200 Buildings & Improvements/ Escrow

Ordinance: Pursuant to § 5-84 Special purchase procedures A/(7) Purchases under extensions
of contracts when no price increase exceeds 10% per year.

The Board of Public Works (5/25/22 BPW meeting), Division of Public Works: Streets, and the Purchasing
Department respectfully request your approval of this contract.

Regards,

Kelly Parkinson
Purchasing Manager

Ce: J Ibara
C O'Connor