Capital Improvement Program and Infrastructure Policies
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The capital improvement program limits expenditures on projects that would encourage development in areas vuinerabie
natural hazards. The CIP program relies on conformance to the Comprehensive (Master) Plan which may constrain expend
Infrastructure policies limit extension of existing facilities and services that would encourage development in areas vulnere
natural hazards. The general policies discourage expansion where reasonable.
The capital improvement program provides funding for hazard mitigation projects identified in the FEMA Mitigation Plan?
CIP Program recommends funding these types of projects.
Small area or corridor plans recognize the need to avoid or mitigation natural hazards. The area plans approved have gene
recognized need to address and attenuate natural hazards that may occur within the area.
The building code contains provisions to strengthen or elevate construction to withstand hazard forces. The City follows th
state and international building code relative to construction to withstand natural hazards for the region.
Economic development or redevelopment strategies include provisions for mitigation natural hazards? Natural hazards wc
need to be mitigated as part of any development or redevelopment.
There an adopted evacuation and shelter plan to deal with emergencies from natural hazards. There is an evacuation plan
areas impacted by the Nashua Levee System. There is no written shelter plan for the City of Nashua. Information about
sheltering is primarily institutional knowledge by OEM and Public Health. This should be formalized in the future. Evacuat
and Sheltering are not mitigation related and are instead response related actions.
