Top Goal:
Mitigation of
Climate Change
Impacts
Mitigate the impacts of climate
change on the community.
Action: Incorporate
resiliency planning into
the design, development,
and maintenance of
recreational and open
spaces
Recommendation 1
Timeframe: Mid-term
Create a citywide management
plan to address invasive species
and encourage the use of native
species and pollinator-friendly
landscaping in city owned and
maintained open spaces.
Recommendation 2
Timeframe: Ongoing
Provide training for existing and
future employees to properly
maintain areas with green
infrastructure, invasives, and
pollinators.
Action: Refine and
Implement a robust
climate action and
resilience plan for
Nashua
Recommendation 1
Timeframe: Mid-term
Build upon research from 2017
Climate and Health Adaptation
Plan findings by the NRPC.
Recommendation 2
Timeframe: Near-term
Minimize heat island effect and
determine areas throughout
the city that were identified as
high priority in CHAP such as
the French Hill neighborhood for
green infrastructure.
Recommendation 3
Timeframe: Ongoing
Collaborate with the University
of New Hampshire’s Center for
Infrastructure Resilience to
Climate to determine areas in
Nashua that are most vulnerable
to increased precipitation and
riverine flooding risk.
Comprehensive Master Plan
Open Space and Environment
Action: Update wetland,
flood protection and
stormwater management
ordinances to protect
future flood zones,
and expand flood zone
buffers, and mitigate
increased flood pressure
from new development
and redevelopment
projects.
Timeframe: Near-term/Ongoing
Action: Adapt City
infrastructure to prepare
for climate change
Timeframe: Ongoing
Action: Conduct risk
analysis of City assets’
potential for future
flooding and adopt
risk factor into asset
management practices.
Timeframe: Mid-term
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