Pittsfield Announces North Street Re-design Open House

07:57AM / Friday, April 04, 2025Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City of Pittsfield invites residents, business owners, and community members to attend the North Street re-design open house on Wednesday, April 9, 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Onota Building located at 74 North Street (first floor).

This initiative aims to transform North Street into a street that ensures safe, comfortable access for all modes of travel and creates space for community interaction, culture, and commerce. This open house will be an opportunity for community members to help shape the future of the downtown.

At the Open House, attendees will:

Learn about the vision, goals, and planning timeline for the project
Review previous and ongoing improvements
Provide input on how North Street can better serve all users
Explore design alternatives and placemaking ideas

This open house is intended to be a drop in opportunity with interactive planning activities. No formal presentation will be provided. The current Planning Study phase runs through June 2025, followed by design and with construction slated for in summer 2026.

For more information, contact Commissioner Morales at rmorales@cityofpittsfield.org or by calling 413-499-9330.

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Dalton Considers Updating its Municipal Code

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Thursday, August 27, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The town is considering updating its original 18-year municipal code to 2026 standards.

During a recent Select Board meeting, General Code New England account manager Zach Dumont outlined the 18- to-24 month process.

General Code New England is a division of the International Code Council, which writes all the statewide building codes across the United States. For the last 18 years, the organization has been the codifier for municipalities.

"We work with communities to build, maintain, and update your local municipal code. That is your collection of bylaws, ordinances, regulations, and any other legislation you've ever adopted," Dumont said.

Once the project is complete, the town would have a fully updated set of books and an improved eCode360 site, he said.

"The way the process would work is we would put together a scope of work, a timeline, a price point, and everything that we would want to touch or do as a part of the code project," Dumont said.

When a municipal code is built, it has a general lifespan of about 15 to 20 years, and although that is a long time, it goes by very quickly, he said.

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