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Imagine Nashua seeks to
enhance Amherst St’s role

as an important connecting
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the corridor to grow into

a successful commercial
destination for Nashuans and
visitors. Allowing a wider mix
of uses on Amherst Street can
create more diversified traffic
patterns and help preserve
and enhance the City’s
commercial tax base, while
creating a welcoming and
vibrant environment for every
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In collaboration with the City and stakeholders, the Master Plan team
has identified the Amherst Street corridor as the most important large-
scale site for long-term planning for Nashua.

Recommendation 1

Timeframe: Near-term

Allow increased height/greater

density to encourage land values
that will justify redevelopment of
existing income-generating uses.

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Issues and Opportunties:

Heavy traffic road,
auto-dominated design
characterized by large
surface parking lots
between buildings and the
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Lack of pedestrian and
bicycle infrastructure and
poor connectivity

Access management and
traffic-related issues

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Redevelopment Site

Beazer Site

Plan appropriate development
in the Beazer remediation site

with a phased strategy for
mixed use primarily focused on
medium-density single and
potential multifamily housing.

Building Cohesive Mixed-use
Districts + TOD

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Redevelopment

Retrofitting Major Corridors

Amherst St Corridor

Considered the most important
large-scale site for long-term
planning for Nashua, Imagine
Nashua proposes retrofitting
this major corridor to be more
attractive and coherent, and
promote local business activity.

Priority Redevelopment Site

Daniel Webster College

Integrate the Daniel Webster
College site into its surround-
ings by developing an appropri-
ately-scaled neighborhood.

Daniel Webster

mixed-use corridors and Scenario Planning
neighborhoods that promote

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Community Engagement
Extensive community outreach
and surveying through Social
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digital mapping platform,
gave members of the Nashua
community the opportunity

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Zoning Map

Zoning

Along with land use, zoning rules
and regulations play a major role
in informing on-the-ground policy
decisions. While this master plan
does not involve a full zoning
rewrite, recommendations from
this plan will directly affect future
zoning code and policy in the city.
Nashua is currently divided into
fifteen base zoning districts, eight
overlay zoning districts, and two
special zoning districts.

ZONING

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Distribution of Land Uses by Land Area

Development
Patterns

A broad land use plan of

Nashua shows patterns of
development representative of
many communities in the United
States including large residential
neighborhoods, with concentrated
strips of development consisting
of commercial, heavy commercial
and industrial development. The
land use plan is an important tool
and lever that the City can use to
guide future policy decisions.

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Nashua Today:
Land Use and
Development

Imagine Nashua seeks to develop
predictable, transparent, and
adaptable land use policies that
the city can use for many years to
come. Directing targeted and well-
regulated redevelopment in prime
locations in Nashua will allow for a
more streamlined planning process
focused on advancing economic
growth and generating community
benefits, while protecting and
preserving the city’s established
neighborhoods.