PITTSFIELD, Mass. — City planners are supporting a zoning district amendment that would highlight the historical design elements of downtown Pittsfield and encourage a mixture of uses to drive creatives and foot traffic to the area. After a public hearing, the Community Development Board on Tuesday voted to send its own petition to the City Council that would create a new creative district in the downtown. "The purpose of this zoning is to really support what we view is the urban fabric that's in place in the downtown area," City Planner CJ Hoss said. "And that means just generally that historic land use pattern, especially the larger buildings that have been here for at least the better part of a century if not longer and had really contributed to more of a mixed-use environment versus some of the development that we've seen in the last 30, 40, 50 years."