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From: Lisa Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 11:23 AM
To: Board of Aldermen
Ce: Graham, Donna
Subject: Downtown Dining Barricades
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Aldermen of Nashua,
I am an employee of a downtown business and want to inform you that I am AGAINST the new
ordinance being voted upon by the alderman this month of March. I am AGAINST the
continuation of the barricades which reduce parking spaces. I am AGAINST reducing the
four traffic lanes going north and south through downtown to two. It creates a
bottleneck for my commute in the morning and in the evening. It is frustrating for both
employees and our loyal customers to have all this congestion with only two lanes of
continuous traffic. Downtown roads have commercial trucks; freight companies like UPS,
FedEx, Amazon, USPS, etc; plus customer and employee traffic.
I continue to enjoy the outdoor dining of the restaurants on the sidewalk, I am for
having the tables and chairs in front of the boundaries of the restaurant. I am AGAINST
the extended outdoor dining which places tables and chairs in the parking areas. It
crowds out our customers who are patronizing the many downtown businesses.
We want an active and vibrant downtown. We want all local businesses to succeed.
Restaurants are not the only businesses downtown. The rest of the us deserve a chance
too.
Sincerely,
Lisa Ginsburg Lewis
21 Colonial Dr
Londonderry, NH 03053
