Board of Aldermen 10-12-2021 Page 7
Alderwoman Lu
May | follow up?
President Wilshire
Sure.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you. Thank you Alderman O'Brien. So my understanding of the letter from Mr. Cummings is that the part
of the parking study that has to do with overnight parking has been completed. Now Desman was going to look
into many issues for parking in Nashua, including whether we have sufficient downtown parking, whether we
should change our manner of charging for parking but it was my understanding that the overnight parking part is
completed and the question is would we like to address it now that it's completed?
Alderman O’Brien
Well | would very caution you because you and | have had this direct conversation before. I'm under the
impression that this is not completely done. This is a phased in type of program that's going. Since the city's
inception of 1673 according to the city seal, there's been no overnight parking that | know of in the City of
Nashua. When we incorporated as a City of Nashua in 1853, there still was no overnight parking. So this is the
first time.
The trouble at hand is you got to look at this within certain neighborhoods. What was traditionally a two and a
half story frame building, which had two families in it with you know maybe dad had the car. Mom may not have
driven as was popular in past years. There was two cars enabled to be entered into the driveway. Now from
what | understand, motor vehicle registers more cars and we have parking spaces in the City of Nashua. So
this causes a problem. So to say that the parking issue is complete, it is not. What needs to be done is in
phases. We’re going to have to look into zoning of it, deciding which areas are going to have maybe on one
side of the street not both. There's a whole complex issues right down to what are we going to do about trash
removal? Are people/citizens going to remove their car on trash day? Are we going to have one area every
week where everybody collectively put their buckets? So there's a lot more questions that need to be
addressed before this program really comes running out.
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam Chair. | think I'd like to try to see if | can clarify some things. The parking study was
originally put together only to look at the downtown parking and so on. When COVID happened, they added the
overnight parking study. That portion actually has finished. There was a meeting not too long ago that they
took the downtown area and kind of added a couple streets to it for the parking study, not the overnight parking
stuff.
The overnight parking study has been done and the report that we got did in fact talk about creating zones, etc. |
believe that's the portion of the parking study that Director Cummings is asking us to move forward with.
Alderman O’Brien
That's correct.
Alderman Klee
Not the - so in my Ward, part of the parking study that won't be finished until February does include streets like
Locke because they added that to it. They added some streets that go up to Amherst Street. It was not just the
downtown parking study. They kind of added some (inaudible). In that respect for me to be able to sit down
