14 SPRING Cv #14, Nashua, NH 03060

Downtown-Mixed Use Overlay District

Downtown: To promote the goals, objectives and strategies adopted as part of the City's Downtown Master Plan along Main Street between Nashua River and Hollis Street. To preserve and build upon Walking Main Street and its walkable, vibrant, and safe character. To foster the mix of retail, offices, and restaurants, working towards the goal of the 24-hour city.; Mixed Use Overlay: Mixed Use Districts are established from time to time to achieve the following objectives: To promote the goals, objectives and strategies adopted as part of the City's Master Plan.; To assist conventional underlying zoning and land use regulations where the modification of use, dimensional, density and other requirements is appropriate through site plan review.; To protect the value and efficiency of operation of surrounding properties.; To maintain unique aesthetic, architectural and visual amenities of an individual building or cluster of buildings.; To enable infill development to occur in a manner that will be compatible with the surrounding site environment and neighborhood.; To ensure that private development and rehabilitation will be compatible and coordinated with public investment and improvements.; To support new construction and adaptive reuse of buildings through appropriate engineering, architectural and design solutions.; To guide the orderly and timely transition from one land use to another within areas subject to building obsolescence, changes in technology, environmental conditions and adjoining development patterns and influences.; To ensure that redevelopment occurring in close proximity to the Nashua and/or Merrimack Rivers will conserve and incorporate natural features and enable both visual and physical riverfront access.; To promote development opportunities that will eliminate blight and disinvestment.; To introduce uses that will have positive long-term social and economic impacts.; To establish a complimentary and integrated working, shopping and living environment.