Our Community Matters -
Windsor and Sonoma County
Our Community Matters
Join Our Coalition to Stop the Koi Nation’s
Shiloh Resort and Casino Project in Sonoma County!
About Our Community Matters
Our Mission
Our Community Matters - Windsor is dedicated to advocating for sustainable development with a focus on family friendly community planning, environmental impact and protection, fire prevention and sane and sustainable infrastructure planning. We are informing and mobilizing individuals to oppose the development of Koi Nation's Shiloh Resort and Casino in Windsor, CA and Sonoma County, CA. Through a comprehensive range of resources, we aim to elevate awareness, engage the community, and gather support to challenge this project that threatens our community's well-being.
We Need Everyone In This Fight!
In January, the Department of the Interior approved the Koi Nation’s proposed fee-to-trust transfer of unincorporated land in Santa Rosa adjacent to the Town of Windsor for a hotel and casino gaming project.
As we’ve stated in prior communications, while we are deeply disappointed by this decision, Our Community Matters believes there are strong enough legal and policy arguments to undo this decision.
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DOI failed us by inadequately addressing the significant and far-reaching impacts this project will have on the surrounding community and Sonoma County as a whole.
The fact is we don’t believe Interior followed adequate National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures, especially as they relate to the analysis of wildfire, traffic, and water/wastewater impacts.
Our Community Matters is aware of public reports of several lawsuits being planned by local Tribes to challenge DOI’s decision.
We support those legal efforts, however, we feel our voices as local residents would best be reflected if the elected bodies that represent us bring about their own legal challenges to the federal decision.
To that end, we urge you to join us in contacting the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the Windsor Town Council and representatives of the Santa Rosa City Council and urge them to fight for us and file their own lawsuits. This fight is not finished.
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Here are some of your neighbors weighing in on support for litigation at the March 5, 2025 Windsor Town Council meeting:
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CONTACTS FOR SONOMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Main
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Phone: (707) 565-2241
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Email: bos@sonoma-county.org
Supervisor Rebecca Hermosillo (District 1)
rebecca.hermosillo@sonoma-county.org
Supervisor David Rabbitt (District 2)
David.Rabbitt@sonoma-county.org
Supervisor Chris Coursey (District 3)
Supervisor James Gore (District 4)
Supervisor Lynda Hopkins (District 5)
CONTACTS FOR WINDSOR TOWN COUNCIL
Main
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(707) 838-1000
Mayor Rosa Reynoza
Email: rreynoza@townofwindsor.com
Phone: 707-608-7874
Jon Davis, Town Manager
Email: jdavis@townofwindsor.ca.gov
Phone: 707-838-5335
Mike Wall, Councilmember District 1
Email: mwall@townofwindsor.com
Phone: 707-608-7995
Sam Salmon, Councilmember District 2
Email: ssalmon@townofwindsor.com
Phone: 707-542-2310
JB Leep, Councilmember District 3
Email: jbleep@townofwindsor.ca.gov
Tanya Potter, Vice Mayor, District 4
Email: tpotter@townofwindsor.com
Phone: 707-849-1157
What They're Saying...
The Koi Nation's Shiloh Resort and Casino Project is opposed by the State of California; County of Sonoma; Town of Windsor, local tribes…and neighbors like you!
State of California -Governor
Gavin Newsom
Matthew Lee, Senior Advisor for Tribal Negotiations & Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary,
Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom
"On behalf of Governor Gavin Newsom, I write to urge the U.S. Department of the Interior not to move forward with the Shiloh Resort and Casino Project in Sonoma County...the Koi Nation of Northern California lacks sufficient historical connection to the Windsor parcel to support the 'restored lands' exception. The Windsor parcel does not fall within the Koi Nation’s aboriginal homeland: it lies approximately fifty miles, over winding mountain roads, from the Lake County region where (as the Koi Nation acknowledges) 'the Koi Nation’s ancestors had villages and sacred sites along the shores of Clearlake since time immemorial.'”
Sonoma County -
Board of Supervisors
Press Release, April 2022
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors “unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the Koi Nation of Northern California’s attempts to place land southeast of Windsor into trust to build a casino [and] asserted that the Koi Nation lacks the necessary significant historical connection to the lands…As a Southeastern Pomo tribe, the Koi Nation’s historic and ancestral lands lie in Lake County.”
Town of Windsor
Jon Davis,
Windsor Town Manager
“On behalf of Mayor [Rosa] Reynoza and the Town Council of the Town of Windsor, I am writing to express the Town's strong opposition to this project…For the litany of reasons outlined in the Town's response to the EA, as well as those additionally expressed here regarding the location, the Town Council affirms their opposition to this project.”
United States Senators
Alex Padilla &
(the late) Dianne Feinstein
“We write to express our opposition to the Koi Nation’s proposal to acquire land in Sonoma County for the purposes of gaming because it is inconsistent with the Department’s [of Interior’s] policy and regulations … We urge you to consider the arguments on this issue articulated by the broad opposition to this project within Sonoma County, including from all five federally recognized tribes in the County…and the unanimous resolutions of both the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the neighboring Town of Windsor.”
U.S. Representatives -
Jared Huffman &
Mike Thompson
“The proposed project would be located in a residential area with elementary schools, parks and religious centers in close proximity. The anticipated traffic and construction from a casino would create unwanted noise and pose a danger to these residents – not to mention its associated air quality and climate impacts. Increased traffic also poses a serious concern when considering wildfire evacuation routes.
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