9291 Old Redwood Highway
P.O. Box 100
Windsor, CA 95492-0100
Phone: (707) 838-1000
Fax: (707) 838-7349
www.townofwindsor.ca.gov
Vice Chair Tim Zahner
Commissioner Gina Fortino-Dickson
Commissioner Meredith Rennie
Commissioner Patrick Richards
AGENDA
PLANNING COMMISSION
MEETING
Planning Commission Regular Meeting - 5:30 PM
Civic Center Council Chambers
9291 Old Redwood Highway, Building 400
Windsor, CA 95492
For more information, please call Town Hall: (707) 838-1000
Meeting Information
Planning Commission Agenda staff reports are available on the Town's website (www.townofwindsor.ca.gov). If an Agenda item has not been highlighted, no written report is available. (Please note that some of these reports may be large documents requiring a long loading time.) The agenda and staff reports will be available for public review at the Civic Center, 9291 Old Redwood Highway, Building 400, at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act: If you need special assistance to attend or participate in a Planning Commission meeting, please contact the Recording Secretary at amay@townofwindsor.ca.gov. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will assist Town staff in ensuring reasonable accommodations are made to provide accessibility to the meeting.
As a public service to the community, Planning Commission meetings are held in-person, and viewable through a live webcast on Zoom, at https://townofwindsor.zoom.us/j/83337614521 or by dialing 877-853-5247 and entering Zoom Webinar ID: 833 3761 4521, televised on Comcast Cable Channel 27, on AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and live webcasted at http://townofwindsor.ca.gov/721/Agendas-Minutes-Videos. If a technical issue arises with Zoom or the listening phone dial-in option, the Planning Commission meeting will continue unless a Commissioner is participating remotely pursuant to the provisions of Assembly Bill 2449.
Providing Public Comments During the Meeting
Members of the public who wish to address the Planning Commission, by providing public comment, during the meeting must do so in-person in the Civic Center Council Chambers at 9291 Old Redwood Highway, Building 400 in Windsor, where the meeting is being publicly held. As an alternative, members may also provide written public comment submitted via email to planningcommission@townofwindsor.ca.gov, please submit via email by 12:00 p.m., on the day of the meeting. If a Commissioner is participating remotely under the provisions of Assembly Bill 2449, members of the public will be allowed to provide public comment through Zoom.
Documents related to Open Session Agendas
The public is advised that pursuant to Government Code Section 54957.5 all writings and supplemental materials submitted to the Planning Commission are public records and will be made available for public review, unless otherwise exempt from disclosure, on the Town’s website at www.townofwindsor.ca.gov, or by email upon request. These writings will be made available in appropriate alternative formats upon request by a person with a disability, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
1. CALL TO ORDER
Call to order a meeting of the Planning Commission (Commission).
2. COMMISSION ROLL CALL
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4. CONFLICT OF INTEREST DECLARATION
5. CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
6. PRESENTATION
6.1 History of Planning in Windsor since Incorporation presented by Lois Fisher, Fisher Town Design.
7. PUBLIC COMMENT
Members of the public wishing to address the Commission on any Consent Calendar item or any item not listed on the agenda may do so at this time. Pursuant to the Brown Act, the Commission is not allowed to consider issues or take action on any item not listed on the agenda during this period. Each Public Comment is normally restricted to three (3) minutes in length and must be spoken into the microphone from the podium. If you wish to speak on a Consent Calendar item, please notify the Chair during the Public Comment.
8. CONSENT CALENDAR
Consent Calendar items are viewed as routine in nature or require little or no further discussion by the Commission, public or applicant, and will be acted upon through a single motion.
8.1 Approve the regular meeting minutes of March 25, 2025.
9. PUBLIC HEARING
9.1 File: 21-21C Old Redwood Highway Villages
Applicant: N. Jay Rider
Location: 6114 and 6122 Old Redwood Highway/APNs 163-172-019, -020, and -021
Env. Document: Previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration. The proposed changes are minor and would not change the environmental determination or the required mitigation measures. No further environmental review is required.
Request: Modify conditions of approval for a 29-lot development project to delete a requirement for clerestory windows on the second floor of elevations facing adjacent properties to the north and east.
9.2 File: 24-26 Sign Program Amendment for the Lakewood Center
Applicant: United Sign Systems
Location: 8776-8928 Lakewood Drive/APNs 161-100-011, -012 and -013
Env. Document: Categorical Exemption: California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Section 15301: Minor alteration of existing private structures and facilities.
Request: An increase in letter height from 24 inches to 30 inches for the tenant Dollar Tree located in the Lakewood Center.
10. REGULAR CALENDAR: None at this time.
11. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
12. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS
12.1 Individual Commissioner Reports and Comments, including reports on Meetings/Conferences and Activities of Miscellaneous Agencies.
12.2 Commissioner Requests for Future Agenda Items.
13. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR'S REPORT
14. ADJOURNMENT
The next regular meeting of the Planning Commission is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., and will be held in the Council Chambers located at 9291 Old Redwood Highway, Building 400, Windsor.
Affidavit of Posting
The Recording Secretary does hereby declare that, in accordance with California Government Code Section 54954.2(a), this agenda for the above stated meeting(s) was posted on April 3, 2025, before 6pm, on the Town's website and near the front entrances of: Town Hall, 9291 Old Redwood Highway, Windsor; and the Lakewood Shopping Center (Safeway) Community Bulletin Board, 9080 Brooks Road South, Windsor.