'Up Front For DeMar' Race Scheduled for Veteran's Day

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The first annual "Up Front for DeMar" 5K run and one-mile walk will be held on Veteran's Day, Nov. 11. The race will begin at the Veteran's Memorial at 9 a.m. and finish at the American Legion. 
 
The race will raise money for a scholarship in the late Army Spc. Michael DeMarsico, who died on Aug. 16 while serving in Afghanistan. Collections will also be made for care packages for deployed soldiers.
 
Registration is $15, if postmarked by Nov. 2, and $20 on the day of the race, with sign-up starting at 7:30 a.m.
 
For more information, to help as a sponsor or to suggest a possible business who may like to help sponsor the event, contact Eileen Monyahan at 413-663-7898 or at upfrontfordemar5k@verizon.net. Registration forms are available at Planet Fitness and Olympia, City Hall, Berkshire Running Center in Pittsfield and via email and Facebook.

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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The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.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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