The growing homeless population combined with the scarcity of public restrooms in downtown Nashua has spurred city officials, business owners and residents to address a messy trend.

The issue was front and center at a special Board of Aldermen meeting Thursday evening in the aldermanic chamber, where about three dozen members of the public listened to city officials put forth ideas and field questions from aldermen.

Among the suggestions was reopening the public City Hall restrooms and extending their hours well into the evening, an approach that some aldermen, including Ward 7 Alderman Tim Sennott, said might at least put a dent in the amount of human waste that downtown merchants and residents say they see almost every day.

But city Economic Development Director Liz Hannum was less op

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