VOTMA has recently commissioned KLD Associates, an internationally recognized engineering firm with extensive experience in evacuation analysis, to conduct the Sonoma Area Fire Evacuation (SAFE) study of a large portion of Sonoma Valley. The SAFE study is already under way and is scheduled to be completed by late September. For more information and to take a five minute anonymous survey, click on the button below.
The Hanna Center proposes a project that is intended to address the housing needs of a wide array of Sonoma Valley resident, including providing a mix of senior, market-rate, and affordable housing options. The plan would offer new residents amenities such as neighborhood-serving retail uses and public open space. In addition, one consideration is to provide a hotel on the site to offer accommodations for guests of senior housing residents, Hanna guests, as well as visitors to the area. The project also envisions a preschool/child development facility and a vocational training center.
The Hanna Center project site is located on an undeveloped, 60-acre parcel at the northeastern corner of Arnold Drive and West Aqua Caliente Road.
Click the LEARN MORE button below to read Hanna's permit application to Permit Sonoma and read VOTMA's comment letter to Permit Sonoma on the FILES page of our website.
A new winery consisting of a 35,679-square-foot process facility with an annual production capacity of 30,000 cases, a public tasting room, wine cave storage, 28 promotional events per year, and 20 acres of permitted vineyard development, located on a 58.68-acre site at the intersection Highway 121 and Napa Road, at the former Stornetta Creamery site, 4310 Fremont Drive.
The Specific Plan involves the transfer of shuttered State Hospital buildings on a 200-acre campus in Eldridge to developers for housing, affordable housing, commercial buildings, a hotel, and other projects to be determined by the final Specific Plan that was adopted on December 16, 2022. Approximately 750 acres of open space land will remain undeveloped and transferred to state and local parks and perhaps placed in trust for wildlife protection.
The Applicant, Eldridge Renewal, LLC, submitted its Development Permit Application for the SDC to Permit Sonoma on February 16, 2024. Click on LEARN MORE below to view the submitted February 16 Development Permit Application.
Then, on March 15, 2024, Permit Sonoma sent a letter to Eldridge Renewal that stated that the Permit Application was incomplete. The letter indicated that to process the application to completion, Eldridge Renewal should provide revised or supplemental application material as needed to ensure that the application is consistent with County standards and requirements. The range of deficiencies or lack of detail in the application pertained to water supply and sewage disposal, riparian corridors and biological resources, wildfire and evacuation, affordability levels of housing, and other issues.
The FILES page of this website contains Permit Sonoma's March 15 letter describing how of the application was incomplete, as well as VOTMA's September 26, 2022 comments on the SDC Specific Plan and DEIR that was submitted to Permit Sonoma.
Also on the FILES page is a letter from Sonoma Mountain Preservation to Senator Dodd, Senator McGuire, and Assemblymember Connolly expressing concern that a 50-acre parcel in the southeastern corner of the SDC property, originally intended for preservation as public parkland, will be transferred to Cal Fire to construct offices.
Currently under construction, a 50-room destination resort, 10,000 case winery with tours, tasting room, retail sales, 125-seat restaurant, 60 special events per year, and a 13-lot subdivision on 477 acres requiring a General Plan amendment, Specific Plan amendment, Zone Change, Major Subdivision, Lot Line Adjustment and use permit. Additionally, 11 luxury hilltop homes on a total of 183 acres. Located approximately two miles northwest of Kenwood at the end of Campagna Lane on the north side of Highway 12.
Located south of the intersection of Highway 12 and Melita Road, a 69-acre property owned by Burbank Housing may be used for an affordable housing project. Burbank is reportedly working with the City of Santa Rosa and its consultants to understand the site’s history and its opportunities and constraints.
PO Box 95, Kenwood, CA 95452
On March 1, 2024, VOTMA entered into an agreement with KLD Associates to conduct an independent evacuation time estimate (ETE) study for much of Sonoma Valley. An anonymous survey of evacuation needs and behavior is now available. Click on the button below to learn more about the Sonoma Area Fire Evacuation (SAFE) Study and to take the 5 minute survey.
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