Selectman Patrick White News Today

The Stockbridge Affordable Housing Trust Committee voted unanimously to take the offer, but many steps remain before a potential decision on what could be built on the 34-acre site.

The town is fine-tuning a Housing Production Plan aimed at creating up to 25 new houses over five years.

The “popular vote” in the eight towns was a 50-50 split, but all the communities had to be on board for the agreement to move forward.

The Select Board voted 2-1 against adopting the state option for a residential tax exemption only available to full-time residents, the third straight year that the plan has been turned

Town leaders have hatched a plan to obtain software compliance programs from vendors in order to fully enforce the existing short-term rental bylaw approved at the June 2021 annual town

Things are looking up in Stockbridge, like property value and the number of children living in the community. Also up is the cost of education.

When to dredge the lake, deploy herbicide treatment tests and use the town’s mechanical harvester requires a final agreement by town officials working with state agencies and an environmental engineering

With state legislation pending by mid-March, the Stockbridge Select Board agreed to await that guidance before taking further action on whether to continue remote meetings.

The state’s residential tax exemption, which benefits lower-income full-timers but shifts expenses to part-timers and wealthier homeowners, is getting close scrutiny in some towns.

As home values soar, the town’s tax rate declines in an effort to keep bills stable.