APPROACH
TASK 6: Housing Strategies
Once the analytical, gaps, and barriers components of
the project are completed, RKG will prepare a set of
recommendations to address the issues that surface
during the analysis. Given the City’s historically-low
vacancy rate, part of the recommendations will focus
on housing production and likely feed into future
Master Plan discussions. These recommendations may
come in the form of zoning changes, land disposition,
public-private partnerships, or development subsidies.
We also recognize as the second largest city in
New Hampshire, we are likely to encounter issues
around older housing units, needs for rehabilitation,
and underlying pressures to redevelop. These can
often come at odds with housing affordability and
preservation goals. RKG will work with the City to
identify these issues, where they intersect, and policy/
program strategies to further the housing goals in
Nashua.
Lastly, RKG will address the needs for deed-restricted
affordable housing across Nashua. We will review
the City’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance to see
how it could be improved and how it can be used
more effectively to leverage units and funding to
seed the Housing Trust Fund. We will also look at
available programs and funding sources the City can
tap into or leverage to partner on affordable housing
developments in the future.
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TASK 7: Housing Report
The City has laid out requirements for the draft and final
document, which include:
» Executive Summary
» Key Findings
» Methodology
» Glossary of Terms
» Zoning Map
» Reference/Resource Guide
» Acknowledgments
Our report will incorporate many of these elements
with the potential exception of the zoning map. In our
experience, the creation of an updated zoning map can
be time consuming and political with potential impacts
to the Zoning Ordinance itself. RKG can however offer
an annotated map which describes locations across
the City where zoning changes could benefit future
residential development.
At the onset of the project, RKG will discuss the format
and content of the final product with the City to
minimize changes and reorganization at the end of the
project.
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