BURTON CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO PROHIBIT ENGINE BRAKING IN CITY

  

The Burton City Council agreed to restrict engine braking inside city limits at its meeting on Monday.

Many towns and cities prohibit the practice of engine braking, which is when a vehicle, usually a large truck or semi-trailer, uses forces within the engine to slow down instead of the service brakes.  The restrictions are due to the loud noise that engine braking makes.

Also at Monday’s meeting, the council approved the addition of a no thru trucks image sign on North Brazos Street at East Mulberry Street – Spur 125.

In other action, councilmembers agreed to hire Permitting Services, LLC to prepare a wastewater permit application to be filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before September 8th.  In addition, they granted a mobile home variance for 12407 East Branch Street.

The council also approved the city’s final amended general and water/sewer budgets for the 2022-23 Fiscal Year, as well as the Fiscal Year 2022-23 audit of the seizure funds account as required by the code of criminal procedure.

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  1. Time to get rid of this council! We do not need more mobile homes in this city. Don’t care what side of 290 they are on. So sad.

    1. I agree. Not only that ever see a mobile home after a tornado touches down near by? It looks like a tin can. And destroys other homes around it. Don’t make Burton an eyesore. An itdecreaces the valve of other homes.

    2. From what big city did you leave to move to burton, your not in the Big city anymore, don’t know how young families can afford to stay in washington co with inflated property values & underpaying local jobs without better options for housing

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