O-21-050
ORDINANCE
RELATIVE TO TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES AND ELEMINATION OF CERTAIN
ON-STREET PARKING FOR USE BY RESTAURANTS FOR OUTDOOR DINING IN
2021
CITY OF NASHUA
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-One
WHEREAS, through Governor Sununu’s Executive Orders, the State of New Hampshire
continues to be in a declared state of emergency due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19);
WHEREAS, Govermor Sununu’s Emergency Order #52 (An order regarding public
health guidance for business operations and advising Granite Staters that they are safer at home)
has been extended multiple times, most recently through March 26, 2021;
WHEREAS, Exhibit B to Emergency Order #52 states in part that “as an extension of the
curbside and delivery model, permit outdoor dining. Restaurants are permitted to expand outside
wherever an outdoor area can be set up safely, such as parking spaces close to entrances,
sidewalks, existing patios, [and] lawn areas”;
WHEREAS, the City is seeking to assist restaurants by accommodating expanded
outdoor dining areas abutting and directly in line with a restaurant’s property;
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the closure, for a period of months, of portions of
certain roads to vehicular traffic, elimination of some on-street parking, and relocation and
creation of some handicap parking while recognizing that the situation is dynamic; and
WHEREAS, similar legislation approved by the City last year (O-20-015) was very
successful.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Aldermen of the City of
Nashua that the roads and on-street parking as depicted on the attached maps which are
incorporated herein, shall be modified and portions closed, parking spaces eliminated, and
handicap parking spaces relocated and created as shown on the map.
