Graham, Donna
From: Julia
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 12:44 PM
To: Wilshire, Lori; Graham, Donna
Cec: Cathey, Johnathan; Clemons, Benjamin; Comeau, Alexander, Dowd, Richard; Gouveia,
Tyler; Graham, Donna; Jette, Ernest; Kelly, Shoshanna; Klee, Patricia; Lopez, Thomas;
Moran, Melbourne; O'Brien, Michae! (Alderman); Sullivan, John; Thibeault, Derek;
Timmons, Gloria; Wilshire, Lori
Subject: Main Street Barriers
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To the Nashua Board of Alderman:
Charron Medical Equipment is an essential business and has been on the frontlines of
the Covid19 pandemic. Our employees have worked through the worst of the
lockdowns. We were here on Main Street in 2020 when the barricades were installed to
help the restaurants reopen with expanded outdoor dining. We believed this was
important to get people back to work and to help restore our community with a small
amount of normalcy.
That was in 2020. Now comes 2021 with barricades again. We sincerely believe that
ALL businesses on Main Street should be permitted the opportunity to succeed and
thrive. That was not the case in 2021. Many of our customers are elderly or disabled
and had difficulty finding parking near our store because of the barricades on Main
Street. So, they chose not to come in for their much-needed medical equipment. This
has broad and deep implications for the health of our community.
Our employees travel to work from out of town and the elimination of two lanes means it
takes 2-3 times as long to travel Main Street getting to work. Our delivery truck must
plan extra time for the traffic on Main Street when there are just two lanes. The effect
has been fewer patients served because of the barricades.
Therefore, we DO NOT support the use of barricades for expanded outdoor dining. We
DO support outdoor dining and our local restaurant businesses. In fact, we support
them as customers; we are frequent patrons of all the restaurants on Main Street. But
even our staff has found that with the barricades it takes too long to order take-out from
a restaurant on the other side of Main Street. We cannot pick up the food and get back
to the south end of Main Street with enough time to eat.
The proposed ordinance will effectively cause economic hardship for certain businesses
on Main Street in favor of other businesses on Main Street. We think this is unfair and
wrong. The proposed ordinance will effectively support and promote customer activity
for some shoppers while impeding the ability of other customers (i.e., elderly and
disabled) from shopping on Main Street. We have seen this firsthand in our store during
2020 and 2021. We cannot tolerate another year of this unfair and unwarranted
preference for some businesses and customers over others.
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