At Williams: Public Events between 5/1/2008 and 5/10/2008

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At Williams: Public Events

LECTURES

Thursday, May 1
Promoting Inclusive Growth Amidst Gentrification
4:00 p.m., Griffin Hall 3, Williams College
Presentation by the Political Economy Senior Group Project.

Sunday, May 4
Muslims Between Scorn, Pity and Justice
7:30 p.m., Griffin Hall 3, Williams College
Lecture by theologian and author Farid Esack.

Monday, May 4
East African Predator Behavior
4:00 p.m., Thompson Biology 112, Williams College
Illustrated lecture by Mark C. Ross, safari guide, photographer, and author.

Wednesday, May 7
Framing Colonial Albany
5:30 p.m., The Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown
Lecture by Katherine Alcauskas.

Thursday, May 8
Music of the Spheres and Other Self-Defeating Paradigms
4:15 p.m., Bernhard Music Center 30, Williams College
Lecture by author, composer, and critic Kyle Gann.

THEATER

Friday, May 2

Stoppard Nights: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
7:30 p.m., Center Stage '62 Center, Williams College

Saturday, May 3
Stoppard Nights: Travesties
7:30 p.m., CenterStage, '62 Center, Williams College

KIDS

Friday, May 2, and Friday, May 9
Storytime in the WCMA Galleries
10:30 a.m., Williams College Museum of Art Rotunda
Preschoolers, toddlers, and infants with adults welcome.

MISC.

Friday, May 2, and Friday, May 9
Zeiss Skymaster Planetarium Show
7:30 p.m., Old Hopkins Observatory, 829 Main Street, Williamstown
Reservations: 413.597.2188. More...

Saturday, May 3
Spring Wildflower and Botany Walk
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Rosenburg Center, Hopkins Forest, Williamstown
Hank Art, Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of Biology, leads a Spring Wildflower and Botany Walk in the Hopkins Forest.

DANCE

Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10
Dance Company Spring Concert
7:30 p.m., MainStage, '62 Center, Williams College
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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The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.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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