City of Methuen Master Plan

Implementation Plan
Strategy #
Strategy
Description
Priority
(1–3)
Time
Table
Responsibility
LU-5: Identify opportunities for additional economic development growth.
LU-5.1: Explore areas such as Lindbergh Ave, Merrimack Street and Broadway
with an eye for economic development. Develop site-specific goals for economic
development/ maximization of industrially zoned land, downtown development, and
commercial corridor redevelopment.
• Implement via
site plan review
2 2009-
2010
Goal LU-6: Manage land uses in a manner that will incrementally improve transportation flow.
LU-6.1: Include vehicle trip generation reducing requirements in commercial and
industrial zoning, e.g., require new commercial and industrial development to
include bicycle racks and lockers and showers for bicycle users, in concert with the
Merrimack Valley Transportation Management Association (TMA).
LU-6.2: Require employers to provide priority parking (most favorably located) for
car and van pools. Encourage new commercial and industrial development to
provide low interest loans for employees to purchase vans for carpooling. Require
new commercial and industrial development to pay for off-site traffic safety and
flow improvements if new traffic they will generate is expected to lower the levelof-service
on adjacent roadways or otherwise adversely impact the transportation
network.
• Implement via
site plan review
2 2009-
2010
same as strategy 2 Ongoing
Goal LU-7: Reduce the unfavorable aspects and impacts of strip commercial development.
Community
Development Board;
City Council
Community
Development Board;
TMA; City Council
Dept. of Econ. &
Comm. Dev.;
Community
Development Board;
Engineering Dept.
LU-7.1: Create a mixed use commercial corridor zoning overlay that permits
smaller lots and reduces building setbacks so that mixed use shopping villages can
be created along arterial roadways with parking to the rear and side. Set overall
design principles in the overlay zone, but leave details of design to be determined
and approved in the site plan and special permit approval process. Specifically
consider the following areas: Broadway from Rosewood to NH State Line,
Haverhill Street from 93/110 Rotary to Lawrence line, Merrimack Street in the
Valley, Pleasant Street from Methuen Executive Park to lights at Jackson Street
• Develop scope of
work for
consulting
assistance
• Hire consultant
1 2007-
2008
Community
Development Board;
City Council
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