Agenda

In-person Events

The City attended the Tree

Street Block Party and hosted

an in-person public meeting at
the Library to share the draft
recommendations for all six
Topic Areas. The in-person
meeting invited attendees to
share feedback on the draft
recommendations with sticky
notes and dot stickers. Attendees
could also review boards that
highlighted the existing conditions
mapping that occurred earlier in
the plan.

“Shared curbside pick-up for
local businesses”

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Comment Forms

Throughout the planning

Opinion groups: Across 394 total
participants, opinion groups emerged
around improving access to green space
and riverfront, increasing quality and high-
paying jobs, increasing public art, year-
round events and festivals, providing more
affordable housing, and improving rail and
transit connections.

Here’s what most people agreed with:

“The current pandemic shows
us that we should be thinking of
open space and recreation less
as a nice amenity but more as

a fundamental part of balanced
city life.”

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total participants

29,940+

total votes cast

Social Pinpoint

2600+

total visits

300+

total comments on map

Webinars/Public
Workshops

1 OES

parcipants attended each
workshop

Public Zoom Meetings in action!

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https://imagine.nashuanh.gov

The planning team conducted a wide variety of digital and non-digital
engagement activities throughout the planning process.

Plan Website

A website dedicated to the
Imagine Nashua planning process
was created to be a landing page
for the project with information on
upcoming events, information on
how to get involved, and analysis
created throughout the plan.

The website was used to employ
online surveys, social media
outreach, interactive mapping,
and online storytelling tools to
gather feedback from those who
are not typically engaged in the
planning process. The website
was translated into Spanish

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Engagement Methods

Imagine Nashua sought a variety of activities

and outreach methods to ensure that the plan
approach, vision, and goals were representative

of a diverse Nashua community. To achieve this
collective outcome, the planning team conducted a

wide variety of digital and non-digital engagement
activities throughout the planning process.

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April May

Comprehensive Master Plan

June July

SCENARIOS &
STRATEGIES

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Public Workshop #3

REVIEW &
RELEASE

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Draft Comprehensive Plan

Survey #2: Draft Plan Comments

Scenarios and Strategies
Mar -June 2021

The planning team tested and
generated scenario options and

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The Imagine Nashua engagement
process was structured around
phases of the master plan, shown
below:

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Oct

Sept

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LEARNING &
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Committee Meeting #1
Public Workshop #1

Survey #1: Goals & Visioning

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Focus Groups
Targeted Outreach

Learning and Listening
Aug-Nov 2020

“Supporting local arts and
culture is directly tied to
economic development,
since it makes our

community a place where
people want to thrive.”

- Pol.is

“Please consider all our
individuals that have
disabilities when planning
common areas :-) not

just parking lot, ramps,
etc. full involve and make
accessible. ”

- Online Comment

Residents and visitors share
how they #Imagine Nashua

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Pandemic-era Engagement

Almost all of the Imagine
Nashua engagement activities
and events were conducted
entirely virtually during the
COVID-19 pandemic, with
exception of a few in-person
events held in the summer of
2021, when official guidelines
allowed outdoor gatherings.

The planning team considered
new and innovative ways to
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community and stakeholders
via online platforms,

and placed more time