Williams College Events 9/28 to 10/5

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Friday, Sept. 28 WCMA Storytime in the Galleries 10:30 a.m., Williams College Museum of Art Preschoolers with guardians. No reservations required. www.wcma.org Williams College CES Log Lunch: Reviving Urban Brownfields: A Berkshire Experience 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Log, Spring Street Andrea Nuciforo, Registrar of Deeds, Berkshire County, Middle District, and former State Senator. Student-prepared vegetarian lunch: $3.50. Reservations must be made by the Wednesday preceding each talk: 413-597-2346 or szepka@williams.edu. It Happened This Way: Art's Role in Social Justice 5:30 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College Panel Discussion with Philip Miller, Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice Paul Van Zyl, and others. Saturday, Sept. 29 REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony 8:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center, Williams College The Williams college concert choir is joined by vocal soloists and gospel and choral singers from South Africa and Emanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Sunday, Sept. 30 REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony 2:00 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center The Williams college concert choir is joined by vocal soloists and gospel and choral singers from South Africa and Emanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Griffin Hall Concert: Victor Hill, Harpsichord 3:00 p.m., The Clark, 225 South St Bach Partita in E Minor and ten Sonatas Scarlotti. Monday, Oct. 1 Laughter and Tears: Japanese Music and Puppets 8:00 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College Shinnai narrative singer Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI, a Japanese Living National Treasure, and Nishikawa Koryu V, director of the Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo puppet troupe, mix comedy and sorrow in their presentation of the plays "Kurokami" and "Yajikita." Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies. Tickets $5 at the '62 Center box office or at the door. For further information contact Christopher Bolton at cbolton@williams.edu. Friday, Oct. 5 WCMA Storytime in the Galleries 10:30 a.m., Williams College Museum of Art Preschoolers with guardians. No reservations required. www.wcma.org
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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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