Minutes

- VHB
Slatverson Design

: Haynee SYA,

Project Purpose

Multimodal Connectivity
Access to the River
Recreation/Greenspace
Environmental Stewardship
Floodplain Resiliency

Economic Development

Genesis for the Project

NASHUA DOWNTOWN
RIVERFRONT
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

FINAL REPORT

City of Nashua, New Hampshire
Mayor Jim Donchess
Community Development Division

Prepared by Halvorson Design
August 2017

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Downtown Riverfront Implementation
December 7, 2021

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TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None

TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION

Laurie Ortolano
A question. Why did Director Cummings decide that now is the time to take on a $21 million project?

Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

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Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

Sure, it was with the Board of Aldermen. It was the Infrastructure Committee and I'm gonna say it was in September off
the top of my head, but I'm sure you could go back to the meeting minutes and look. | don't know.

Laurie Ortolano

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Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director

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open up the riverfront and make it enjoyable. A lot of people have remarked that they didn't even realize that there
was a river there. So we'd be looking to maintain it as we go forward and we built that into the model.

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what we did in 2018/2019 very early on. Nothing that we're talking about here today is new. We've been discussing
this for quite a while.