Agenda

Recommendation 5

Require space at the stations for
secure bicycle parking.

Recommendation 6

Develop a systemic solution for
parking to limit vehicle trips to
and from the stations.

Action: Facilitate
connections

to neighboring
municipalities and
beyond for people
walking and biking.

Action: Work

with neighboring
municipalities, including
those in Massachusetts,
to coordinate trail,
sidewalk, and bicycle
facility projects.

Action: Advocate

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Goal:

Regional
Connectivity

Enhance movement of people
and goods between Nashua
and the greater metropolitan
region, and encourage
increased activity north and
south via improved passenger
rail connections.

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Action: Plan proactively
around future commuter
rail station locations.

Recommendation 1

Action: Improve
wayfinding and increase
public awareness of
multimodal options.

Recommendation 1

Encourage use of the existing
and future network by helping
users navigate to their desired
destination with multi-lingual
wayfinding signs, QR codes,
creative paint treatments on
roads, maps.

Recommendation 2

Focus signage along and leading
to the Heritage Rail Trail, Mine
Falls Park, Countryside Drive, and
Groton Road.

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Goal:

Reliability and
Efficiency of
Multimodal
Operations

Ensure safe and efficient
operation of transportation
systems and balanced use of
street systems for all modes,
with focus on pedestrian and
bicycle networks.

https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

Action: Improve
intersection and bike
safety throughout the
City.

Recommendation 1

Action: Assess
transportation network
elements for flood risk
and other resilience
concerns, and implement
elevation/protection
improvements in
conjunction with land use
reform.

Action: Review findings
from the CHAP in
relation to heat island
and determine areas in
the City that are most
impacted and focus bus
shelter improvements in
those areas.

Action: Integrate
resilience into existing
asset management and
capital planning.

Recommendation 1

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Goal:

Land Use
Integration

Ensure that transportation
policy decisions, strategies,
and investments are
coordinated with land use
goals and support the desired
urban environment.

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Action: Conduct a parking
demand study to more
efficiently handle existing
vehicular needs and
better enable multimodal
transportation.

Recommendation 1

Action: Update Land
use code and zoning
regulations to be clear
and understandable by
residents, business, and
property owners.

Recommendation 1

Hold periodic programming
including open houses,
neighborhood meetings, online
forums, status updates to create
opportunity for the public to
engage, learn about, and stay
updated with city land use policy
and development.

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Goal:

Design Process and
Transparency

Employ a design review
process based on the themes
of the Nashua Master Plan,
which incorporates community
vision and local feedback ina
predictable manner.

Action: Update zoning to
better align regulations
with the existing context
and desired character

of new development,

in order to reduce the
need for zoning relief
and enable a more
streamlined process.

Recommendation 1

Action: Encourage
activity in ground floor
uses of new buildings,
especially on commercial
corridors such as
Amherst Street and the
Daniel Webster Hwy,

and TOD areas such as E
Hollis St.

Recommendation 1

Incentivize private developers to
include publicly accessible spaces
for community gathering in new
development projects.

Action: Promote
continuous street walls
on commercial corridors
and Main St.

Recommendation 1

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Goal: Action: Enhance

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Livability and Public and public realm through

Realm high-quality urban
Foster neighborhoods in which design.
current and future residents,
and business owners will Recommendation 4
want and be able to live,
shop, work, and locate their
businesses.

Plan for a scalable, predictable
and adaptable approach to
improve design quality across the
city .