Matsui Advocated for More Housing. After Milltown, He Has Questions.
Perhaps no other voice on the Twisp Town Council has been more pro-development than Tim Matsui, a liaison to the town’s planning commission and an unofficial representative on the Housing Solutions Network, a group of local nonprofits that meets in private and doesn’t share their meeting minutes with the public. On July 14, a different…
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