new facilities are proposed, intensive environmental review is conducted to ensure that they are located in safe locations
as to identify, minimize and mitigate any potential negative impacts.
Movement systems are designed to function under disaster conditions (e.g., evacuation). New systems are designed to be
resilient, to operate under disaster conditions, and to support emergency operations. As funding becomes available, plans
improve existing systems by making them more resilient and supportive of emergency operations will be implemented.
Comprehensive Plan — Environmental Management
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Environmental systems that protect development from hazards are identified and mapped. The wetlands and floodplains,
bodies, steep slopes and soils are shown in the plan. Parks and conservation land are mapped but they are not specifically
identified as protective from hazards. The water supply protection district is also mapped.
Environmental policies maintain and restore protect ecosystems. The goals and objectives and land use recommendations
the conservation and protective efforts required. The Nashua wetlands ordinance is very important to protecting wetlands
waterways, and water quality. It is more stringent than state regulation, however applicants can be granted special except
from compliance. There are several polluted former industrial sites and asbestos disposal sites that could act as hazard mu
in the event of a natural hazard (flood that washes away toxic waste for example). Those sites are mostly known.
Environmental policies provide incentives to development that is located outside protective ecosystems. The policies encc
creation of conservation developments to preserve natural areas by providing incentives for their protection. The local, ste
and federal environmental policies that exist mostly encourage protection of existing protective ecosystems and therefore
encourage development outside of these areas. In Nashua there is relatively little undeveloped areas so mostly we are see
development.
Comprehensive Plan — Public Safety
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The goals and policies of the comprehensive plan are related to those of the FEMA Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. Generally
comport by steering development out of sensitive and known hazard areas.
Safety is explicitly included in the plan's growth and development policies. Plan objective is to ensure that proposed buildil
sites are safe from flooding meeting all FEMA requirements as specified by adopted ordinances.
