The Town Planning Board is ready to report on the results of the Town Planning Survey it conducted this spring. You and/or your neighbors had a lot to say. The Board received 126 responses to its paper and on-line survey, representing about 100 two-person households and 26 or so singles.

But the Board wants to hear a lot more from everyone.

So much so that it's throwing a Townwide Pizza Party to find out what you think.

Old Town Hall, Friday evening, 6:00 p.m., September 12.

Yes. A Pizza Party.

"We want people to come out and tell us more about what they'd like to see for Sandisfield," said Planning Board chairman Jeff Bye. "We have some good ideas thanks to the survey, but we're still open to ideas. We want everyone who filled out the survey to have pizza with us and talk about it, and we want to hear from everyone who didn't fill out the survey."

The Board is working with the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC), which has run the numbers and percentages that will be shared at the September 12 meeting. A revised Sandisfield Master Plan will be published in 2026.

The Board acknowledges the Town's earlier Master Plan, which was developed after a lot of hard work by a different team of residents in 2015-16. (That original Master Plan can be accessed at Sandisfieldma.gov.MasterPlan.)

Of the 33 survey questions, one question was: "Would you like to see village centers returned to Sandisfield?" Sixty-three percent of responders said "YES." To another question: "Would you be willing to increase your taxes to support a full-time ambulance squad?" the response was 65 percent "YES."

"We're still putting together the final results," said Planning Board member Barbara Cormier, "and every idea is worth talking about."