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Planning committee recommends rezoning along Northeastern Boulevard to Highway Business
Summary
On June 16, 2026, Nashua’s Planning & Economic Development Committee voted to recommend final passage of O-26-013, which would rezone parcels along Northeastern Boulevard and Industrial Park Drive from a PI (industrial) classification to Highway Business, making restaurants and retail permitted uses. The public hearing drew no speakers and the committee passed the recommendation by voice vote.
The Nashua Planning and Economic Development Committee voted on June 16 to recommend that the full Board of Aldermen give final passage to ordinance O‑26‑013, a rezoning that would change parcels along Northeastern Boulevard and Industrial Park Drive from PI (planned/industrial) to Highway Business.
Deputy Planning Manager Sam Durfee told the committee the change shifts a portion of an industrial‑use area toward commercial uses, allowing restaurants, retail and similar businesses and extending an existing Highway Business district slightly into adjacent PI parcels. "This change ... does change the zoning from existing PI to Highway Business," Durfee said in his opening remarks, adding the proposal is consistent with the corridor vision in the master plan.
Committee members asked whether residential areas would be affected. "This does not affect any real residential areas," Alderman Patricia Klee said; Durfee confirmed the closest residences are across the street and the rezoning covers only two or three parcels on the eastern/southern side of Industrial Park Drive where it meets Northeastern Boulevard.
Alderman John Sullivan moved to recommend final passage to the full board; the motion was approved by voice vote after the chair called for "ayes" and declared the ayes to have it. The committee noted that a traffic study or specific site‑plan review would occur later in the development process, saying the ordinance itself is a land‑use change, not site‑plan approval.
No members of the public spoke during the hearing; the chair closed the public hearing on O‑26‑013 at 7:04 p.m. and the committee proceeded to accept the communication from the planning manager and place it on file. The committee’s recommendation now moves the ordinance to the Board of Aldermen for final action.
Actions and next steps: The committee recommended final passage of O‑26‑013 to the full board by voice vote. A site‑specific traffic analysis and detailed site‑plan review will occur at a later stage if an applicant files for development under the rezoned designation.
