1 00:00:19,11 --> 00:00:19,55 It's seven 2 00:00:19,56 --> 00:00:23,75 o seven S M did list how we're speaking with Julia Donahoe she's running for city 3 00:00:23,76 --> 00:00:29,05 council of the town of Windsor I have learned the hard way that it is a town not 4 00:00:29,06 --> 00:00:31,43 a village nor a city but a town is 5 00:00:31,44 --> 00:00:35,94 a town this is your second attempt Yes sir first was in two thousand and six two 6 00:00:35,95 --> 00:00:41,75 thousand and six ten years ago what happened then. When I ran back then I was new 7 00:00:41,76 --> 00:00:47,61 to town and I had just moved into my house and my daughter was only in kindergarten 8 00:00:47,61 --> 00:00:54,14 . And I was in law school and I was working full time so I was kind of juggling 9 00:00:54,15 --> 00:00:59,46 a lot so I put in about fifty percent effort to get elected and I got about fifty 10 00:00:59,47 --> 00:01:03,99 percent of the votes I needed to win so I was very very happy with my results given 11 00:01:04,00 --> 00:01:08,57 all that I was handling at the time what what compelled you to run given the what 12 00:01:08,58 --> 00:01:12,76 was happening in your life. Running for town council is actually 13 00:01:12,77 --> 00:01:17,58 a great way to get to know your community and to find out what resources there are 14 00:01:17,62 --> 00:01:22,54 the other way of getting to know the community is leadership Santa Rosa which I did 15 00:01:22,55 --> 00:01:28,07 I was class twenty five so that together with my service working in county 16 00:01:28,08 --> 00:01:31,79 government and my having run for town council gave me 17 00:01:31,80 --> 00:01:36,05 a really great great perspective of our community here we are 18 00:01:36,06 --> 00:01:42,40 a decade hence and you're in it again yes I am in it to win it I am yeah what's the 19 00:01:42,41 --> 00:01:45,14 difference between that and well since then I've done 20 00:01:45,15 --> 00:01:50,23 a decade of service in county government I finished law school and passed the bar 21 00:01:50,32 --> 00:01:55,52 regulations thank you and I've gone back on my own working so I have 22 00:01:55,53 --> 00:02:02,51 a small office. Do architecture and I do all. Oh. So you're one of 23 00:02:02,52 --> 00:02:07,50 those people who has won these mines where you can do anything right architecture 24 00:02:07,63 --> 00:02:13,70 law I know your surgeon also known and you you have to know why dual careers like 25 00:02:13,71 --> 00:02:17,26 that I mean it's I'm not doing your career so I'm doing 26 00:02:17,27 --> 00:02:22,22 a career of architecture and sometimes I'm involving the law and sometimes I'm 27 00:02:22,23 --> 00:02:27,82 doing legal things that are tension to play architecture so I'm I'm in a sort of 28 00:02:27,83 --> 00:02:30,82 a compliment to the station that actually has there's about 29 00:02:30,83 --> 00:02:35,02 a hundred of us across the country that are architected turning some easy my my 30 00:02:35,03 --> 00:02:39,50 legal advocacy skills to advocate for things like I told you I got Julie Morgan the 31 00:02:39,51 --> 00:02:43,83 first gold medal in architecture I did that with my advocacy skills that I got as 32 00:02:43,84 --> 00:02:46,43 a lawyer more than my persuasive skills it was 33 00:02:46,44 --> 00:02:51,13 a political activity getting people from all across the country to understand who 34 00:02:51,14 --> 00:02:54,93 she was what kind of architecture was and then to vote for her I lived in Berkeley 35 00:02:54,94 --> 00:02:58,02 so she's everywhere that yes yes everywhere there but if you lived in Arkansas you 36 00:02:58,03 --> 00:03:03,80 would say. Why would I vote for Julia Morgan never heard of her right so I had to 37 00:03:03,81 --> 00:03:05,66 educate a lot of and I had to do 38 00:03:05,67 --> 00:03:09,87 a political process to make it happen and you're bringing this sensibility to the 39 00:03:09,88 --> 00:03:13,62 town of Windsor like right right any particular thing you have occasion for right 40 00:03:13,63 --> 00:03:20,16 now. Healthy safe resilient community we have one of the safest communities because 41 00:03:20,17 --> 00:03:23,48 of the planning the good planning that we have done that's created walkability and 42 00:03:23,49 --> 00:03:28,19 livability I'm an advocate for managed growth and I like all housing types in our 43 00:03:28,20 --> 00:03:29,74 town but in fact I think it creates 44 00:03:29,75 --> 00:03:34,69 a good diverse community I'm really interested in having 45 00:03:34,70 --> 00:03:39,30 a movie theater on the town green for now but I think there is no movie feel heard 46 00:03:39,31 --> 00:03:43,69 there was a. An attempt to put 47 00:03:43,70 --> 00:03:47,63 a movie theater there back in the earlier days of the community but the sewer fees 48 00:03:47,64 --> 00:03:51,40 were too high so they place the movie theater at the airport is it because like all 49 00:03:51,41 --> 00:03:57,20 the movies are shit. In the know it the receipts were worth they were and there 50 00:03:57,21 --> 00:03:57,56 wasn't 51 00:03:57,57 --> 00:04:01,41 a good negotiation so for about twenty thousand dollars differential We lost 52 00:04:01,42 --> 00:04:04,71 a movie theater that and everyone has to go to the airport to watch 53 00:04:04,72 --> 00:04:10,30 a movie so we need to get that function back at the at the town green and because 54 00:04:10,31 --> 00:04:14,93 that will drive the six to nine business every night not just during the summer we 55 00:04:14,94 --> 00:04:16,41 want year round we want to have 56 00:04:16,42 --> 00:04:19,52 a very active town green and I've seen it happen Petaluma they created what's 57 00:04:19,53 --> 00:04:24,01 called the theater district right for better or worse but that having Peter 58 00:04:24,05 --> 00:04:28,05 certainly has kept that part of the town alive and vital and businesses have come 59 00:04:28,06 --> 00:04:34,06 in because of that. But when it comes to life Peter right it seems like there's 60 00:04:34,07 --> 00:04:34,70 a something there's 61 00:04:34,71 --> 00:04:37,94 a potential for performing our senators have at least I think we have great 62 00:04:37,95 --> 00:04:40,33 potential for a performing arts center that can also be 63 00:04:40,34 --> 00:04:45,39 a movie theater maybe maybe we can do something that combined uses so that we have 64 00:04:45,40 --> 00:04:48,58 activity all the time my mother lives in Palm Desert they have 65 00:04:48,59 --> 00:04:51,47 a beautiful performing arts center but it's always sitting there I drive by and 66 00:04:51,48 --> 00:04:54,70 it's like empty right I don't want that in our town green I want something that's 67 00:04:54,71 --> 00:04:57,53 very active and engaged on a regular basis 68 00:04:57,92 --> 00:05:00,13 a lot of that have to do the reason or if you have to kind of because it's so 69 00:05:00,14 --> 00:05:00,88 expensive to get 70 00:05:00,89 --> 00:05:04,64 a production in there had to mitigate that kind of thing decent Well you're right 71 00:05:04,65 --> 00:05:06,02 but you make the building more of 72 00:05:06,03 --> 00:05:10,10 a mixed use type building that I can accommodate multiple uses and then there's 73 00:05:10,11 --> 00:05:16,68 activity more often. As an architect downtown Windsor 74 00:05:17,19 --> 00:05:21,85 and I talk to the candidates about this to me looks like somebody ordered it online 75 00:05:22,10 --> 00:05:26,88 and then installed it right I'm not sure who the developer was or if the architect 76 00:05:26,89 --> 00:05:30,76 was warranty visually impaired or something but why why does it look the way it 77 00:05:30,77 --> 00:05:35,85 does if you like it or and cease and design his own buildings he didn't really want 78 00:05:35,86 --> 00:05:41,46 to work with an architect and he chose the colors he chose the materials to use the 79 00:05:41,47 --> 00:05:45,71 same windows because it. It's cheaper so I do feel that it has an out though at the 80 00:05:45,72 --> 00:05:49,82 time I said well why don't you just hire an architect at least do color study you 81 00:05:49,83 --> 00:05:53,33 know in Berlin they did 82 00:05:53,34 --> 00:05:57,25 a whole new area of town when they took down the wall and it was like Should we 83 00:05:57,26 --> 00:06:00,66 just have one architect do it no no no we need to have different architecture it's 84 00:06:00,67 --> 00:06:04,72 going to look very funny we need to have different people involved because how they 85 00:06:04,73 --> 00:06:05,19 approach 86 00:06:05,47 --> 00:06:11,10 a design problem will create what gives you that urban fabric so really to have 87 00:06:11,11 --> 00:06:15,98 a street that we don't want this sameness we want more more diversity but the 88 00:06:15,99 --> 00:06:18,90 reason why it came about because it were and developed all that and I think that 89 00:06:18,91 --> 00:06:22,46 you did you know I mean what he did was to help us create 90 00:06:22,47 --> 00:06:27,62 a container for for all that to movies that we've we've been doing the last ten 91 00:06:27,63 --> 00:06:33,22 fifteen twenty years but we need to finish out the other couple sides with 92 00:06:33,31 --> 00:06:36,74 a little bit more diversity in the architecture we have some great opportunities 93 00:06:36,75 --> 00:06:40,19 here to really do something stellar so I must say there's sort of 94 00:06:40,52 --> 00:06:44,72 a growing beer district of a sort of found her you know there's 95 00:06:44,73 --> 00:06:51,64 a well I think our whole community needs to move more towards wine tasting 96 00:06:51,65 --> 00:06:58,02 and beer tasting in the urban cores rather than out in the landscape just because 97 00:06:58,03 --> 00:07:02,96 of driving and intoxication but what happened to me but then we create these 98 00:07:02,97 --> 00:07:05,90 boutique areas I think we're we're moving in that direction that 99 00:07:05,91 --> 00:07:09,87 a great but do you want to tip it to be able to become Healdsburg or do you want to 100 00:07:10,35 --> 00:07:12,32 because a how we want to really maintain 101 00:07:12,33 --> 00:07:17,36 a really relaxed family friendly environment I think that's really important but we 102 00:07:17,37 --> 00:07:21,91 want to accommodate some tourism we don't want to be killed for quite. 103 00:07:25,71 --> 00:07:29,70 But we have already have such strong programs in place I'm really confident that we 104 00:07:29,71 --> 00:07:33,76 can accommodate more people in more activities and still maintain that so that 105 00:07:33,77 --> 00:07:38,33 would be my goal is to maintain that interest that we have going on but also 106 00:07:38,34 --> 00:07:42,73 accommodate more because that brings money into our community. How it helps with 107 00:07:42,74 --> 00:07:46,48 her doing with money doesn't have to enough to do what it needs to do winters and 108 00:07:46,49 --> 00:07:48,77 done really well with a balanced budget and I would be 109 00:07:48,78 --> 00:07:53,59 a huge advocate for always balancing the budget and being I'm more fiscally 110 00:07:53,60 --> 00:07:55,15 conservative I'm more of 111 00:07:55,16 --> 00:07:59,75 a moderate politically I can see both sides of the table my lawyer skills really 112 00:07:59,76 --> 00:08:03,78 help with that because I can see the left I can see that my mother my mother had 113 00:08:03,79 --> 00:08:06,70 her eighty fifth birthday and I bought her a trump hat and we took 114 00:08:06,71 --> 00:08:09,78 a picture and I wore my Hillary hat that we just can't believe you know they're up 115 00:08:09,79 --> 00:08:15,65 but I know how to talk to people on both sides and so. So I think that's 116 00:08:15,66 --> 00:08:19,95 a skill I have she always my dad who lived with me here in Windsor for seven years 117 00:08:19,96 --> 00:08:22,32 and help her help with raising my daughter he's 118 00:08:22,33 --> 00:08:26,69 a far left my mother's far right I'm kind of in the middle because I can talk to 119 00:08:26,70 --> 00:08:27,98 both of them so I think that's 120 00:08:27,99 --> 00:08:32,60 a skill that I have that's great so it's election night right you have to give all 121 00:08:32,61 --> 00:08:36,38 the speeches and all that what's what's the key takeaway that you want voters to 122 00:08:36,39 --> 00:08:41,55 happy for to go into the booth it doesn't have to be that but is actually 123 00:08:41,56 --> 00:08:48,40 a whole thought. Well I think the reason why I would really appreciate the voters 124 00:08:48,41 --> 00:08:53,60 to vote for me is because I think upbringing level of qualifications and competence 125 00:08:53,64 --> 00:08:54,95 to the position I have 126 00:08:55,17 --> 00:08:59,15 a larger perspective because I am an architect and an attorney and I've served on 127 00:08:59,16 --> 00:09:01,54 the National Board for the American 128 00:09:01,55 --> 00:09:06,56 a seat of architects for the Jefferson side and for the streamline Anstey and 129 00:09:06,57 --> 00:09:09,71 a stand how government works and I think I can do 130 00:09:09,72 --> 00:09:14,91 a really great job and I'm really good at listening to the constituents and really 131 00:09:14,92 --> 00:09:19,37 understanding the full spectrum of the problem we're talking with Julia who on 132 00:09:19,38 --> 00:09:20,47 seventy seven will be right. 133 00:09:29,21 --> 00:09:30,35 Seven a seven hundred 134 00:09:30,36 --> 00:09:36,92 a list Powell with Julia Donahoe she's running for town council in Windsor. Things 135 00:09:37,07 --> 00:09:41,79 have changed Windsor things have changed in her life let's start but for the 136 00:09:41,80 --> 00:09:47,72 beginning and get to Duffy and where we are now the end is very very far away did 137 00:09:47,73 --> 00:09:53,13 her life is so distant we can't even begin in my life not my not my time at the end 138 00:09:53,14 --> 00:09:56,99 of it but yet beginning might also be I have no idea hold your long long time ago 139 00:09:57,00 --> 00:09:57,40 once upon 140 00:09:57,41 --> 00:10:04,92 a time where were you where did you start I began life in Houston Texas. And 141 00:10:04,93 --> 00:10:08,39 I grew up there and. Had 142 00:10:08,40 --> 00:10:14,33 a wonderful childhood lived in the. Big neighborhood called Tanglewood and we could 143 00:10:14,34 --> 00:10:19,45 ride our bikes everywhere and we had floods and we swam in the streets every 144 00:10:19,46 --> 00:10:24,13 September that of water could get up to about three feet and we could actually swim 145 00:10:24,14 --> 00:10:25,41 in the street to see when he said 146 00:10:25,42 --> 00:10:28,38 a water works you could totally bring them back neat when the streets of Windsor to 147 00:10:28,39 --> 00:10:32,51 be brought up well I don't I think it was bad infrastructure planning that we had 148 00:10:32,52 --> 00:10:37,01 water but the houses were set up high enough so that they weren't affected but the 149 00:10:37,02 --> 00:10:42,04 streets were not passable so we always had flood days we didn't have snow they've 150 00:10:42,05 --> 00:10:45,93 because it never snows nice and went once I think when I was ten we had 151 00:10:45,94 --> 00:10:51,12 a snow day we only chill tippling zur now I have two brothers one lives in Austin 152 00:10:51,13 --> 00:10:54,52 Texas and the other lives here in California. He's 153 00:10:54,53 --> 00:10:58,24 a professor at Stanford with your parents or my father's 154 00:10:58,25 --> 00:11:00,30 a physics professor at Rice University My mother is 155 00:11:00,31 --> 00:11:06,20 a schoolteacher so both education and then did you get we're going to school I went 156 00:11:06,21 --> 00:11:11,00 to school at the local Well no I mean the grove college I went to Princeton 157 00:11:11,01 --> 00:11:16,75 University but only Yeah I went there twice it was so beautiful to be there and I 158 00:11:16,76 --> 00:11:22,19 got involved I started as an engineer and I moved into architecture and then they 159 00:11:22,20 --> 00:11:22,54 had such 160 00:11:22,55 --> 00:11:26,19 a great program in architecture I went back there for my Masters that's great but 161 00:11:26,20 --> 00:11:29,54 then all the way from the East Coast to the west what brings you to California. 162 00:11:33,58 --> 00:11:37,08 I came out of California to my mother's from California my my parents met here in 163 00:11:37,09 --> 00:11:40,63 California my dad was at Cal Tech and my mother lived in Pasadena she went to 164 00:11:40,64 --> 00:11:46,66 Occidental and they met at the Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard it's 165 00:11:46,67 --> 00:11:51,63 a beautiful church they got married there and so our family has always had 166 00:11:51,64 --> 00:11:56,75 a lot of. Activity in Colorado I mean in California and Texas. 167 00:11:59,38 --> 00:11:59,65 Without 168 00:11:59,66 --> 00:12:06,60 a job or what with which are you here I mean I moved away from California. Back 169 00:12:06,61 --> 00:12:12,35 in one thousand nine hundred two when I went to Colorado and I had my own firm 170 00:12:12,36 --> 00:12:16,25 there and I had a very thriving practice but I had 171 00:12:16,26 --> 00:12:21,15 a daughter and I wanted to be back in California where we had some family so I 172 00:12:21,16 --> 00:12:25,60 moved back here and when I did I very intentionally moved to Sonoma County because 173 00:12:25,61 --> 00:12:29,53 I had been working for an architect over a snow man Ned Forrest he's 174 00:12:29,54 --> 00:12:30,94 a great architect and he was 175 00:12:30,95 --> 00:12:37,67 a really really sweet guy you know Boy Scout troop leader type type of guy and. He 176 00:12:37,68 --> 00:12:43,38 just really instilled the belief that working and living and in the community are 177 00:12:43,39 --> 00:12:47,61 important he didn't want people to commute to his office I mean might take someone 178 00:12:47,62 --> 00:12:51,63 out of the area that he wanted them to to live and work in the community so he gave 179 00:12:51,64 --> 00:12:55,04 me a great model for how to be an architect in in 180 00:12:55,05 --> 00:12:57,33 a community is to really get involved to be done 181 00:12:57,34 --> 00:13:00,60 a lot of work you know once really other buildings that you know that you designed 182 00:13:00,60 --> 00:13:07,52 . Not in winter yet you know. Where they are. Most of my work 183 00:13:07,53 --> 00:13:12,52 here in the county some oh I did one building for Ned Mike right on the border with 184 00:13:12,53 --> 00:13:16,96 snowmen Napa County it's the De Rose Art which on this will have been there of 185 00:13:16,97 --> 00:13:20,99 course I did the building that's between the winery and the metal building and yet 186 00:13:21,00 --> 00:13:23,76 it's like a tunnel it's a grid a car hanging from 187 00:13:23,77 --> 00:13:27,47 a tree in front of it does you know you're the best car you know yeah I know you go 188 00:13:27,48 --> 00:13:31,70 in a tunnel and it's a chapel and has the monks there up and it has also all the 189 00:13:31,71 --> 00:13:36,41 a DA stuff to fit into that winery without messing with the front of the winery Wow 190 00:13:36,72 --> 00:13:38,70 really yeah let it a be a if you buy 191 00:13:38,71 --> 00:13:42,84 a good weather yesterday. Right I did that that piece it was like 192 00:13:42,85 --> 00:13:47,93 a little jewel what can we do that with Windsor if you had your druthers right city 193 00:13:47,94 --> 00:13:53,86 council or you get to redesign the city it would just. Right now yeah I'd rather do 194 00:13:53,87 --> 00:14:00,67 City Council. Down the council ten shovels area you know. Now you're in Windsor 195 00:14:00,84 --> 00:14:06,28 you're working back into your personal timeline you've got the political bug like 196 00:14:06,29 --> 00:14:09,02 in two thousand and six the first time but but also there was 197 00:14:09,03 --> 00:14:12,31 a means to immerse yourself in the community there in the ten years that have 198 00:14:12,32 --> 00:14:19,31 transpired since how do you feel about Windsor and your place in it. Oh well. In 199 00:14:19,32 --> 00:14:24,58 two thousand and five I moved into a new house and so we invested 200 00:14:25,10 --> 00:14:31,54 a lot of money and then very quickly disappeared so. The street that I was on 201 00:14:32,42 --> 00:14:33,81 very interesting that it had 202 00:14:33,82 --> 00:14:37,08 a lot of people who actually couldn't afford to live there or had other things 203 00:14:37,09 --> 00:14:42,11 going on and through the recession they all kind of left and there was one guy who 204 00:14:42,12 --> 00:14:44,57 was coming out and yelling at people all the time so I did 205 00:14:44,58 --> 00:14:51,37 a lot of Prain for. Having nice neighbors I did 206 00:14:51,38 --> 00:14:55,76 a lot of praying for having nice neighbors I didn't say any any neighbor was 207 00:14:55,77 --> 00:14:57,79 a good neighbor or bad neighbor but I just wanted to have 208 00:14:57,80 --> 00:15:01,59 a nice neighborhood will and nice neighbors I'm going to have you have 209 00:15:01,60 --> 00:15:07,32 a religious faith I miss and I'm I'm I was raised Methodist and I'm I am Christian 210 00:15:07,33 --> 00:15:08,80 and I am also 211 00:15:08,81 --> 00:15:14,19 a Buddhist. But I believe in the power of prayer your intent and really the whole 212 00:15:14,20 --> 00:15:18,67 community change so I say I survived the recession a place we had to reinvest 213 00:15:18,68 --> 00:15:24,20 a lot of money in the House to to stay and and did the repairs answered to the 214 00:15:24,31 --> 00:15:29,92 neighbors like everyone change in fact one of my neighbors is my call you know and 215 00:15:29,93 --> 00:15:35,16 so it's kind of interesting because and two thousand and six he had just gotten 216 00:15:35,17 --> 00:15:39,66 a condo on the on the green and then he met Christine and now they probably little 217 00:15:39,67 --> 00:15:40,90 kids yeah but I have 218 00:15:40,91 --> 00:15:46,25 a teenager so I went through that whole time. And I'm really excited to have 219 00:15:46,26 --> 00:15:49,63 survived and we have a great St Let me back up 220 00:15:49,64 --> 00:15:55,30 a bit Mike Walter those who don't know history will tell us the story oh Mike Mike 221 00:15:55,31 --> 00:16:00,29 also running for town council if he goes a bit on the ship. Is that it is 222 00:16:00,30 --> 00:16:03,98 a very nice it doesn't seem awkward at all for either of you both both sides both 223 00:16:03,99 --> 00:16:08,45 of you speak well of each other and I like Mike I like Christine my daughter was in 224 00:16:08,46 --> 00:16:09,90 The Nutcracker with Christine 225 00:16:10,14 --> 00:16:14,50 a couple of years back at Wells Fargo So you know I've invited them over for 226 00:16:14,51 --> 00:16:19,09 spaghetti even during the campaign and. So we're going to sit with Orton to. Along 227 00:16:19,10 --> 00:16:22,67 with all the candidates because we don't know who's who the voters will vote for 228 00:16:22,85 --> 00:16:28,38 what if you both won right and then you'd have this power lock on your street right 229 00:16:28,46 --> 00:16:29,28 and I don't think it would be 230 00:16:29,29 --> 00:16:34,86 a power lock you know we've never on the town council had anyone on the west side 231 00:16:35,29 --> 00:16:36,24 so I don't think that's 232 00:16:36,25 --> 00:16:41,87 a bad thing and Mike and I see things differently like he says he's not and in 233 00:16:41,88 --> 00:16:47,20 favor of the Native American development I'm part Native American so I'm kind of 234 00:16:47,21 --> 00:16:50,90 want to be more neighborly and I've also spent 235 00:16:50,91 --> 00:16:55,32 a decade in the southwest so I really got to see the the Native American Dynamics 236 00:16:55,33 --> 00:16:59,16 and how it can and fold and bad ways and so I really want to get ahead of just 237 00:16:59,17 --> 00:17:03,92 being good neighbors came to talk about what the did the development is it's not 238 00:17:03,93 --> 00:17:07,58 right it's not a great rhetoric I think it no no it's that right now it's 239 00:17:07,59 --> 00:17:11,74 a it's housing and it may become may have 240 00:17:11,75 --> 00:17:17,30 a winery aspect which would when you want to do if you were on the. East side road 241 00:17:17,68 --> 00:17:18,76 and in 242 00:17:18,77 --> 00:17:23,72 a hotel component and that brings tourists through our town so we can control everything 243 00:17:23,73 --> 00:17:29,20 from the freeway to their door and more importantly we need to really have good 244 00:17:29,40 --> 00:17:33,22 collaboration with the tribe and we need to really mitigate all those problems that 245 00:17:33,23 --> 00:17:34,76 can unfold when they do have 246 00:17:34,77 --> 00:17:38,42 a casino elsewhere and that money can flow into our community in 247 00:17:38,43 --> 00:17:41,24 a good way or bad way so we need to really work on building 248 00:17:41,25 --> 00:17:45,96 a healthy safe resilient community with our neighbors and so I want to work with 249 00:17:45,97 --> 00:17:48,16 them so he has a little bit of 250 00:17:48,17 --> 00:17:53,22 a different view but. The tide has great staff I'll talk with Julia Donna who Julia 251 00:17:53,23 --> 00:17:57,21 Donahoe She's one of our town council of Windsor We'll be right back and set up. 252 00:18:05,24 --> 00:18:11,08 We're back I did with House Julie Donahoe she's running for town council Windsor we 253 00:18:11,09 --> 00:18:16,93 left off talking to a development housing development being pushed by 254 00:18:16,97 --> 00:18:22,58 a native american local Native American tribe and you are a proponent of being 255 00:18:22,59 --> 00:18:25,48 a good neighbor that development and that is 256 00:18:25,49 --> 00:18:31,39 a possible hotel or resort hotel that could be adjacent to that property. 257 00:18:32,51 --> 00:18:38,19 Healdsburg and Sonoma for example did not contribute trips to the occupancy tax I 258 00:18:38,20 --> 00:18:42,92 think it's two percent of the hotel bills do not go into the white or Sonoma County 259 00:18:42,93 --> 00:18:49,32 Tourism quaters coffers to to. Promote tourism but WINDSOR I'm not sure where they 260 00:18:49,33 --> 00:18:53,73 stand on that so. Oh. Because I would be 261 00:18:53,74 --> 00:18:59,56 a boon that well the hotel if it's on the tribal lands won't be in the town 262 00:18:59,57 --> 00:19:03,52 boundaries so it doesn't really make a difference right to be 263 00:19:03,53 --> 00:19:09,54 a sovereign nation I guess until they're in the county first of all so that's not 264 00:19:09,55 --> 00:19:14,32 sovereign then it still doesn't affect us arcana What 265 00:19:14,33 --> 00:19:20,13 a strange situation yet does when certain to disagree with her have presently 266 00:19:20,14 --> 00:19:25,84 a tourism bureau of its own. I do not believe we have 267 00:19:25,85 --> 00:19:28,79 a separate tourism. Charity. 268 00:19:33,19 --> 00:19:36,60 Or space for that Windsor or do you rely on the county for that kind of marketing. 269 00:19:38,56 --> 00:19:45,15 I'm not as informed on that issue and I'm not out of my my my thinking is that 270 00:19:45,16 --> 00:19:50,56 we go with the county I think there's synergies in going to county and I find that 271 00:19:50,66 --> 00:19:52,27 there's a sort of isolate or even head with 272 00:19:52,28 --> 00:19:56,29 a wine growing region and you have to do it all together in the cinema is an 273 00:19:56,30 --> 00:20:02,08 average of those regional tourism snowmen Healdsburg or are trying to would attract 274 00:20:02,09 --> 00:20:08,68 a real concentrated high and clientele and I think we want more family friendly 275 00:20:08,93 --> 00:20:13,45 tourists Yeah I'd say so and we like having the buying that and we like having 276 00:20:13,46 --> 00:20:17,72 those activities come to tell and we want to continue to support that kind of thing 277 00:20:17,81 --> 00:20:22,83 because that's really about getting outdoors and being healthy and. It's almost 278 00:20:22,84 --> 00:20:28,24 like cinnamon Hills heard our engineering themselves to serve the one percent and 279 00:20:28,38 --> 00:20:33,37 Petaluma Windsor say Santa Rosa certainly wants to reach the ninety nine percent 280 00:20:33,88 --> 00:20:38,83 right but doesn't winter sometimes want to do that fifty nine percent you know or 281 00:20:38,84 --> 00:20:44,90 Lake Tahoe adept at I in the fifty nine percent. I think that winter in Petaluma 282 00:20:44,91 --> 00:20:45,07 have 283 00:20:45,08 --> 00:20:50,41 a lot in common you know Lois Fisher is. To sure town design have really worked to 284 00:20:50,42 --> 00:20:53,12 do this Marco dare and was involved in 285 00:20:53,16 --> 00:20:57,24 a lot of the planning and I just think Lois has some great ideas she always comes 286 00:20:57,25 --> 00:20:57,36 with 287 00:20:57,37 --> 00:21:03,63 a smile and she has such great enthusiasm for the good result of planning but the 288 00:21:03,67 --> 00:21:05,47 timeline is very long so I think we have 289 00:21:05,48 --> 00:21:11,89 a lot in common with Petaluma in that Petaluma is very strong identity among the 290 00:21:11,90 --> 00:21:13,66 local residents and it has 291 00:21:13,67 --> 00:21:19,57 a tourism aspect and it has this walkable communities that have already half of it 292 00:21:19,83 --> 00:21:21,24 it's two towns it's 293 00:21:21,25 --> 00:21:24,86 a nephew site and west side I guess in many ways that aluminum Yeah you know we're 294 00:21:24,87 --> 00:21:29,11 just kind of like that too well I'm in favor of bridging that you cite in 295 00:21:29,12 --> 00:21:29,81 a website with 296 00:21:29,82 --> 00:21:34,85 a pedestrian bicycle in winter in winter I'm in favor of letting you set 297 00:21:34,86 --> 00:21:39,85 a Petaluma pretending it ever had. The doctor on the phone if I told him and I 298 00:21:39,86 --> 00:21:44,38 noticed that that dichotomy bed but that you side didn't have that walkable livable 299 00:21:44,39 --> 00:21:49,65 so that's just says services serving residents right in the downtown actually 300 00:21:49,66 --> 00:21:54,06 serves residents as well as brings in people who are interested in coming to 301 00:21:54,07 --> 00:21:59,17 Petaluma so with winter so ten years hence read your own council and you and your 302 00:21:59,83 --> 00:22:01,37 colleagues are able to shape 303 00:22:01,38 --> 00:22:06,21 a vision what is it in your mind what does it look like ten years from now. Ten 304 00:22:06,22 --> 00:22:11,57 years from now I'd like to see the town green finished out and I'd like to see some 305 00:22:11,66 --> 00:22:15,34 different architecture there from different buildings and I'd also like to see 306 00:22:15,35 --> 00:22:19,58 a connection to the east side and to be able to leverage the parking over there and 307 00:22:19,59 --> 00:22:20,59 to create 308 00:22:20,60 --> 00:22:26,04 a pathway for students to go to middle school walking or rolling first seniors to 309 00:22:26,05 --> 00:22:30,02 come to the town green without having to drive and not having to build too many 310 00:22:30,03 --> 00:22:35,18 parking structures but we may need one or two to accommodate the people without 311 00:22:35,19 --> 00:22:39,96 having them so far from the town green and without impact in the local residence it 312 00:22:39,97 --> 00:22:42,85 seems a lot of your vision has to do with having 313 00:22:43,05 --> 00:22:48,03 a pedestrian friendly talent making it loosely walkable you know and with that time 314 00:22:48,04 --> 00:22:53,12 the dividends of health just generally better experience to make 315 00:22:53,13 --> 00:22:55,07 a town walkable it's got to be nice to walk within 316 00:22:55,72 --> 00:22:59,30 a drive through town sometimes and just like you know these walls they're blocking 317 00:22:59,31 --> 00:23:03,19 out the freeway found a mega thing and just want to be there right so I was 318 00:23:03,20 --> 00:23:09,48 a big proponent for smart I actively campaigned for the bond measure 319 00:23:10,03 --> 00:23:15,92 with the local architects and I also worked with my local architects to. 320 00:23:17,08 --> 00:23:17,44 Do 321 00:23:17,45 --> 00:23:22,62 a vision and study for the Northwest Santa Rosa station and we successfully got the 322 00:23:22,66 --> 00:23:27,47 train station moved from back in this hidden spot out to Greenville road so it be 323 00:23:27,48 --> 00:23:33,67 more accessible to the whole community so but my thesis when I was at Princeton was 324 00:23:33,99 --> 00:23:34,97 the iron horse as 325 00:23:34,98 --> 00:23:38,76 a vehicle of urban transformation so my whole career has been about how. Can you 326 00:23:39,09 --> 00:23:39,61 develop 327 00:23:39,62 --> 00:23:46,35 a community to strengthen the transportation options so that you can be more walkable 328 00:23:46,36 --> 00:23:50,19 livable and I bought my house so that I can walk to the train station I'm less than 329 00:23:50,20 --> 00:23:53,93 half a mile from that so I'm within the walking three quel where it's 330 00:23:53,94 --> 00:24:00,61 a feasible thing and at least absolutely bicycle I have done my bike to the bus 331 00:24:00,62 --> 00:24:05,06 stop and gone to work I've done that when I wasn't taking my daughter to school at 332 00:24:05,07 --> 00:24:11,12 same time but. I think the more we emphasize the walkability in the live 333 00:24:11,13 --> 00:24:15,58 a believe the more we can get kids to move around town safely I went I went on this 334 00:24:15,62 --> 00:24:21,27 wonderful trip last year to Japan yes and even in the rain little kids were walking 335 00:24:21,33 --> 00:24:25,34 little kids were walking to school by themselves with their brother sister and they 336 00:24:25,35 --> 00:24:30,35 were so well behaved they abate every traffic law and they were very safe and it 337 00:24:30,36 --> 00:24:30,71 was just 338 00:24:30,72 --> 00:24:34,53 a culture of being safe and I'd like to create that more in our community you know 339 00:24:34,54 --> 00:24:38,27 I spoke to somebody from smart recently and they pointed out hey we have 340 00:24:38,28 --> 00:24:41,00 a situation where we've had at least two generations that don't know what 341 00:24:41,01 --> 00:24:45,22 a train is you know interleaved how to conduct oneself in the concert with 342 00:24:45,23 --> 00:24:51,26 a train going through your your city right. There's obviously to confront concerns 343 00:24:51,27 --> 00:24:56,42 there's vehicle problems but if you're probs anything to happen right in event 344 00:24:56,43 --> 00:25:00,76 inevitably seventy probably will happen something will happen right what's winds 345 00:25:00,77 --> 00:25:03,25 are doing and what you guys going to do with winter to make sure that everyone who 346 00:25:03,26 --> 00:25:06,24 stands like you don't hang on to the tracks you don't jump and I think that's 347 00:25:06,25 --> 00:25:09,59 a collaboration with the schools we need to have or it with the schools in 348 00:25:09,60 --> 00:25:13,92 discussing that and I think that's already probably in progress but as the train 349 00:25:13,93 --> 00:25:18,52 starts operating I think we're going to have to have that conversation annually so 350 00:25:18,53 --> 00:25:18,77 that's 351 00:25:18,78 --> 00:25:26,44 a safety awareness is really an important part of. The situation. And 352 00:25:26,44 --> 00:25:32,14 . It's something that people learn Yeah my daughter you know because she was raised 353 00:25:32,15 --> 00:25:36,18 in the car seat you know she'd always buckles up right so it's just 354 00:25:36,19 --> 00:25:41,88 a way of being we just have to make sure that people learn and that they respect. 355 00:25:43,23 --> 00:25:48,91 Excellent Giulia Donahoe she's running for town council of Windsor Any parting 356 00:25:48,92 --> 00:25:54,66 words before we wrap up the segment. I think we have 357 00:25:54,67 --> 00:26:00,37 a great opportunity for the next. Ten or fifteen years to really came to the future 358 00:26:00,38 --> 00:26:03,14 of Windsor and make it even more of 359 00:26:03,15 --> 00:26:09,69 a. In the larger context of our county and our state we're we're at the 360 00:26:09,70 --> 00:26:14,54 top fifty and I think planning have gotten us there and I think we need to keep 361 00:26:14,55 --> 00:26:19,49 going keep winning he would want to set us up and thanks for coming back with me 362 00:26:19,50 --> 00:26:21,37 when. I was lucky.