O-20-015
ORDINANCE
RELATIVE TO TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES AND ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN
ON-STREET PARKING FOR USE BY RESTAURANTS FOR OUTDOOR DINING
CITY OF NASHUA
In the Year Two Thousand and Twenty
WHEREAS, Governor Sununu’s Executive Order 2020-04 as extended by Executive
Orders 2020-05, 2020-08, and 2020-09 declared a state of emergency due to the Novel
Coronavirus (COVID-19);
WHEREAS, Governor Sununu’s Emergency Order #40 Pursuant to Executive Order
2020-04 as extended, modified and extended Emergency Order #17 (Closure of non-essential
business and requiring Granite Staters to stay at home);
WHEREAS, Exhibit C to Emergency Order #40, Section A “Consumer Protection
Guidelines (Phase 1),” states that “as an extension of the curbside and delivery model,
restaurants are permitted to offer outdoor dining beginning on Monday May 18, 2020.
Restaurants are permitted to expand outside wherever an outdoor area can be set up safely, such
as parking spaces close te 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; and
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the closure, for a period of months, of portions of
certain roads to vehicular traffic and elimination of some on-street parking and recognizing that
the situation is dynamic.
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 map which is
incorporated herein, shall be modified and portions closed or spots eliminated, as shown on the
map.
BEIT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon recommendation of the Director of Public
Works and the Parking Manager, the Mayor may approve additional road closures and
elimination of on-street parking to accommodate outdoor dining locations.
