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Lanesborough Planning Board Mulls Town Meeting Proposals

Last year, voters rejected a proposal to remove the 900 square-foot cap on ADUs due to concerns that people would build large structures on their property.

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Dalton Board OKs Technical Assistance Application

The Select Board last week approved an amended application for Berkshire Regional Planning Commission's District Local Technical Assistance Program (DLTA).

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Lanesborough Planning Board Considers Reworking Rejected Articles

Voters rejected an article at the annual town meeting to remove the 900 square-foot cap on ADUs with concerns that people would build large structures on their property.

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North Adams Planners Recommend Overlay District for New Hospital

The vote came after a joint public hearing with the council on the proposal. The City Council is expected to vote on the ordinance Tuesday night.

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North Adams Hospital Seeks Overlay District to Support Medical Services

The Hospital Avenue Overlay District would cover only the property off Hospital Avenue owned by BMC that includes the former hospital building, the Clark House, Doctor's Building and Ambulatory Care Center.

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Williamstown Planners Review 'Cottage Court' Bylaw

Beck's second proposed bylaw would allow manufactured homes by right as accessory dwelling units only in GR, Southern Gateway, RR2 and RR3.

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Pittsfield Looks at Zoning Amendment for Battery Energy Storage

On Tuesday, the Community Development Board got a first look at the proposal.

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North Adams Mulling Zoning Change to Promote Development on Union Street

The City Council tentatively set a joint public hearing with the Planning Board for Aug. 14.

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Special Permit Withdrawn Following Residential Complaints

The original plan was to build a 1,000-square-foot accessory building but after receiving complaints from residents in the area, he has redesigned the project.

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Dalton Talks Zoning Bylaw Over Pub Parking Lot

A change in signage seems to have quelled neighbors' ire over errant parking and excessive noise by Zinky's Pub patrons.

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Lack of Assisted Living Demand Has Sweetwood Eyeing Apartments

The owner of Sweetwood assisted living facility on Cold Spring Road is looking to change its zoning to allow its vacant units to be leased as apartments.

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Williamstown Planners Send Warrant Articles to Select Board

The Planning Board last week voted to send five zoning bylaw amendments to the Select Board for inclusion on May's annual town meeting warrant.

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Lanesborough Planners to Analyze Pontoosuc Lake Neighborhoods

The analysis under the District Local Technical Assistance would map out the Lake community parcels to determine what the effect would be if they were resized to minimum, smaller lots.

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Lanesborough Eyes Zoning Changes for Large Properties

The idea would allow for the reuse of larger parcels that are in residential-agricultural zones to be used for hospitality oriented projects.

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Pittsfield Receives Grant to Expand Zoning Concept

The city has received more than $42,000 to expand the concept of the Downtown Creative District in the West Side and Morningside neighborhoods. The goal is to alleviate barriers caused by zoning and modernize the city's ordinance.

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Letter: Zoning Proposals in Williamstown 'Not Ready for Prim Time'

To be frank, most of these articles are simply not ready for prime time.

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Letter: Why Williamstown's Zoning Proposals Should be Tabled

I am writing in response to Peter Beck's letter of June 12, which argues that at town meeting, Williamstown residents should "discuss" the 10 articles the Planning Board has put forward and then vote them up or down.

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Letter: Williamstown Planning Board Proposals

Perhaps the Planning Board should have spent more time reaching out to all the town's citizenry long before any town meeting.

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Letter: Let Town Meeting Vote on the Zoning Proposals

The Planning Board split its work into 10 articles because they're not an interconnected, inseverable mass. They are all about allowing more homes to be built in Williamstown, but they do that work in different ways, in different parts of town.

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Letter: Not NIMBY, It's Common Sense

We simply ask our fellow residents to wait a year until our $180,000 Comprehensive Town Plan is complete before approving radical changes. Shouldn't zoning implement our Comprehensive Plan, not the other way around?

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Letter: Voters Should Reject Changes to RR Zone

It is hard not to conclude that town voters should reject the Planning Board's proposed articles with respect to our Rural Residence districts.

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Letter: Support for Williamstown Planning Board Recommendations

I support the Williamstown Planning Board's bylaw recommendations. They represent a good first step towards reducing the artificial barriers in our decades-old zoning map.

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Williamstown Planning Board Splits on Proposal for Rural Development

The act would, if passed, reduce the residential lot dimensions in the town's Rural Residence 2 zoning district in the same proportion that a similar article, No. 44, would do so in the General Residence district.

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Williamstown Residents Divided on Calls for Action, Analysis on Zoning Issues

The plan was to take input on all of the proposed amendments and decide whether to finalize language for the town meeting warrant.