1onstrate the City of Nashua’s continued compliance with NFIP requirements, the Resilient Nashua Initiative identified NFIP-related
sion actions as part of its comprehensive mitigation strategy. These actions are identified in in Section 4.2, Table 7—Mitigation Actic
ber of existing documents were reviewed and incorporated into the Nashua Hazard Mitigation Plan Update 2018. The City of Nashu
se Code was used to provide information on where and how the City builds. This was particulariy helpful when mapping critical faci
yrs (Section 3.4). The City of Nashua’s Master Plan provided insight on future development patterns (Section 2.1) and helped to info
alysis and prioritization of mitigation actions (Section 4.3). Finally, the City’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan was
iced to write the hazard descriptions used to determine the City’s vulnerability by hazard (Section 3.5).
fice of Emergency Management utilized the Safe Growth Audit to review existing plans for connections to the mitigation strategy.
Comprehensive Plan - Land Use
o The future land-use clearly identifies natural areas. The conservation areas and open space areas contain wetlands and flo
prone areas and are recommended for protection in the Conservation Element of the Plan.
o Land-use policies discourage development or redevelopment within natural hazard areas. The conservation element of the
encourages no development in wetlands and in flood zones and steep slopes and areas of unstable soils.
o The plan provides adequate space for expected future growth in areas located outside natural hazard areas. Those areas a
identified on the future land use map and within written goals and objectives in the applicable sections of the plan.
Comprehensive Plan — Transportation
o The transportation plan does not limit access to hazard areas. Planning for expansion of the transportation system involve:
review of existing environmental conditions and land uses in areas where expansion is being considered. Identification of t
areas is included in that review and the system expansion is designed to avoid those areas whenever possible.
o Transportation policy is not used to guide growth to safe locations. Land use and zoning policies guide growth more than
transportation policies. Most of the land in Nashua has already been developed with transportation access established. WI
