Windsor Election 2017: Early Measure H Results

WINDSOR, CA — The Town of Windsor's Measure H appears headed to approval, according to early election-night results posted by the Sonoma County Registar of Voters Office. Of voters within the town, 74.8 percent — or 3,088 — said yes on Measure H. Meanwhile, no votes numbered 1,043 or 25.2 percent.

Although there were no polls open this Election Day because of the recent wildfires, Sonoma County Elections Manager Deena Thompson-Stalder told Patch preliminary, unofficial results for Measure H and other local elections would be released this evening.

The election was conducted entirely by mail-in ballots. As of Tuesday morning, Thompson-Sadler told Patch the registrar's office had received 6,000 of 21,000 ballots mailed to voters in Cotati, Windsor and the Wilmar Union School District in Petaluma, where local measures are at stake.

In Windsor, residents are voting about whether to extend the town's urban growth boundary to Dec. 31, 2040. Measure H will add three parcels totaling 22.5 light-industrial acres in the Shiloh Road area for the anticipated expansion of Santa Rosa Junior College's Public Safety Training Campus and two other existing businesses.

Mayor Debora Fudge said there have been no annexations of land within the urban growth boundary since 1997. Growth in Windsor primarily has been in the downtown area, Fudge said.

Under Measure H, the policies and procedures of the urban growth boundary can only be amended by voters, not the Town Council. If Measure H fails to get majority approval, the policies and procedures of the urban growth boundary could be amended by a majority vote of the Town Council without a vote by Windsor residents.

Voters had the opportunity to drop off their mail-in ballots until the 8 p.m. deadline.

Check back here on Healdsburg Patch for more election-night results as they come in.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.

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