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Engineer briefs commissioners on Twisp apartment traffic study, compressor-brake noise complaints and shop equipment issues
Summary
County engineer Josh Thompson reviewed a traffic study for a proposed 72-unit Twisp apartment project, discussed a neighborhood complaint about unmuffled compression brakes ("Jake brakes") and briefed the board on shop day-tank and pump problems.
County Engineer Josh Thompson told commissioners he had reviewed a traffic study for a proposed 72-unit apartment complex near Twisp that projects roughly 536 vehicle trips per day if the development is built. Thompson said the road’s existing average daily traffic on Twisp–Carlton Road is just under 700 ADT, so adding the development is a sizable percentage increase, though models show the corridor remaining within the county’s level-of-service standard overall. State and city agencies will coordinate on the Highway 20 intersection where left-turn movements are expected to be…
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