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What Is Imagine
Nashua?
Imagine Nashua Is the City’s comprehensive
planning process—an initiative that combines
inclusive community engagement with major plans
created in the past 20 years to craft an innovative
vision for the future of Nashua. This master plan
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What Is Imagine Nashua?
Comprehensive citywide plans
Balanced approach to development
Why Plan Now?
Need for growth
Addressing climate change
Embracing inclusivity and diversity
Measuring and defining success
Vision and Core Values
Equity, Resilience, Climate Protection
Planning Process and Framework
Timeline
How to use this plan
Comprehensive Master Plan
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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
Comprehensive Master Plan
Economic
Development
Open Space and
Natural Resources Arts and Culture
Top Goal: Parks and
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Nashua’s green network:
Enhance access to and better
connect Nashua’s existing open
space network for citizens of all
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Top Goal: Mitigation of
Climate Change Impacts
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change on the community and
encourage public health.
Top Goal: Diversity
Celebrate and integrate
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Top Goals
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Land Use and
Development
Learn more about the
Master Plan’s Top goals
on page 52.
Top Goal: Housing
Accessibility
Create a greater mix of housing
types that are accessible
to Nashua residents at
all life stages, household
compositions, physical abilities,
and socioeconomic levels as
identified in the 2020 City
Housing Study.
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Introduction
What is Imagina Nashua?
Why Plan Now?
Vision and Core Values
Planning Procress
Community Engagement and Outreach
Top Goals and Actions
Land Use and Development
Mobility and Transit
Housing
Economic Development
Open Space and Environment
Arts and Culture
Additional Goals and Actions
Land Use and Development
Mobility and Transit
Housing
Nashua River Light Parade organized by Nashua Area
Kayak Exploration Destinations (N.A.K.E.D.) Group.
Heidi MacDonald, Ward 4 Resident
Gloria McCarthy, Ward 5 Resident
Peter Schaefer, Ward 7 Resident
Mary Ann Melissa Golva, Ward 8 Resident
Homa Jaferey, Ward 9 Resident
Consultant Team
Utile: Tim Love, Will Cohen, Taskina Tareen, Elizabeth van der Els,
Andrea Baena
Ninigret Partners: Kevin Hively
Brown Richardson + Rowe: Dave Andrews, Althea Northcross
Horsley Witten Group: Jon Ford, Ellie Baker
Toole Design Group: Karen Fitzgerald, Jake Berman
