Board of Aldermen — 02/13/18 Page 6
that motion tonight to make it dependent one year. Make sure it is in the bank, and make sure that Mayor
cannot say: “Hey, it’s okay. Amazon has promised to pay us the money.” It should be in the bank. Thank you
very much.
Philip Scontsas, 14 Ashland Street
Hello again, everybody. Welcome to the new members of the Board. It’s nice to see the fresh faces. I’ve
spoken a couple of times here so it’s nice to be back. This is a very exciting time for Nashua. There is a lot of
enthusiasm about this performing arts center. I’m shocked to hear the young man, the 19 year old man, who
spoke earlier speak about a large group of negative people because that’s not the people that | am speaking
to. | am actually speaking to a lot of people that are very enthused by this and the promise of what this will
bring. | speak to parents who have children that hope that they will stick around after their college days
because of things like this performing arts center, etc. | am also surprised to hear about the people not so sure
about Nashua stepping up with the money. There has been lots of discussion about what plans would be. |
think that’s a little bit of putting the cart before the horse. | hope that tonight you can all find it in your hearts to
vote for this performing arts center that is going to make Nashua just that much better than it already is.
| think with the development of the real estate, the redevelopment of the river, this last piece, it’s just that last
missing piece that we have been talking about for a long time. | think back to all the master plans that we sat
through and everybody that talked to us about what Nashua needs, and this was always on the list of one of
the most highest proprieties of what needed to be done. | hope you can all find it something that you will vote
for and see it be positive and help this city, not just help downtown, but help this whole city be the city it should
be. Thank you.
PETITIONS
Street Re-Numbering Petition (25 New Searles Road and 27 New Searles Road)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO GRANT THE PETITION, IN PART, WITH THE STIPULATION THAT
SHEET B, LOT 1058, BE ASSIGNED THE STREET ADDRESS OF “25A NEW SEARLES ROAD” AND
THAT THERE BE NO ADDRESS CHANGE TO SHEET B, LOT 59
ON THE QUESTION
Alderman Jette
Hearing Ms. Allard, | feel it is difficult for me to talk about this but at the meeting of the Infrastructure
Committee we talked about this. Back when this subdivision was initially approved, this is out on New Searles
Road, there were several lots approved and they were assigned street addresses. One of them was 25 New
Searles Road, upon which there is a building, a house that has been constructed. There was another lot next
to it that remained vacant and then a lot next to that one, upon which a house was built. It was assigned the
address of 29 New Searles Road and then a house next to that was 31. So, you have 25, a vacant lot, and
the vacant lot was assigned the address of 27. Then what is now Mrs. Allard property was assigned the
address of 29 and then the 31. For some unknown reason, someone in Mrs. Allard’s chain of title, someone
who occupied that property before she did, started using the number 27 instead of the 29 that had been
assigned to it. When she bought the house, she continued using the address of 27. A mistake was made.
Now you’ve got a house on 25, you have a vacant lot next to it, you have Mrs. Allard’s property, she is using 27
and then you have 31. Mr. Philbrick, | think his name is, acquired this vacant lot and wants to build a house
onit. It is an approved lot. It is part of the subdivision that goes back a number of years. He can’t get a
building permit until he has an address.
The city has an addressing committee. It is dealing with the assignment of street address numbers. They
wrote a memo to the Board and the committee saying that they strongly recommended that the error that was
developed when whoever owned the property that Mrs. Allard now occupies, when they started using the
wrong number, that that mistake be rectified and that it be given its original address of 29, the vacant lot get
the address of 27 and 25 keeps its 25 and 31 keeps its 31. The reason they strongly recommend this is that
