Recently (May 2025), I sent an email to Town Manager Jon Davis about the parking situation near the corner of Shiloh and Old Redwood Highway. More and more cars are parking in that area as the Shiloh Terrace apartments fill up.
I have copied the email below. I rearranged it because for the purpose of this post, because at the moment, the parking on Shiloh was dangerous and possibly more important than the street situation around Shiloh Terrace. I put the parking first. Don’t get me wrong, the Shiloh Terrace street situation is horrible.
The problem here is that it was necessary to add some “no-parking” areas on Shiloh to make it safer.
As a result of my email, and probably other input on the situation, eventually last Wednesday, August 20, at the Town Council regular meeting, a motion was passed to look into restriping the Shiloh street to move the center line over perhaps 3 feet to the South, to make it safer to turn right from Gridley to Shiloh. We have already put in no-parking signs near Old Red on Shiloh, and also painted the curbs in the first sections on the corner of Gridley.
Though this striping may not be the perfect solution, time will tell, and other improvements may be made in the future.
NOTE: => You can see the entire report on the project here and a PowerPoint with more pictures and explanations here.
Here is the part of the email about parking on Shiloh.
From: JB Leep <jbleep@townofwindsor.ca.gov>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2025 2:54 PM
To: Jon Davis <jdavis@townofwindsor.ca.gov>
Subject: Situation at Old Red and Shiloh
Hi Jon,
This has been bugging me for a while and I have not really spelled it out for you, so this morning when I was walking to Walmart, which I do for my health, not go to Walmart, but walk. I apologize for the length and detail here. Maybe you know all this, and maybe you have to listen about it all the time.
[The part about the problems on the curbs surrounding Shiloh Terrace go here, but I put them below so I could do the parking section first. — JB]
On Shiloh, around the corner from my house, [I live on Lea] I want to show a couple pictures of the parking and street situation. I parked my van a reasonable distance from the corner so you could see how narrow the road is. Esposti is on the right. I am about a foot away from the curb, a legal and not unreasonable distance. Just where I happened to end up when I parked. The turning car crosses the line to go around it. It’s not an impossible turn, but certainly dangerous.
To illustrate how far 100 feet is, I measured it from the beginning of the straight part of the sidewalk and it is 100 feet to the first light pole, where the truck is parked just past it. Maybe we could at least prohibit parking for the first 50-100 feet.
And here’s a picture of a car crossing the line to go around my parked car. Remember, at the end of a day, cars are parked all along that section of road and the other side. You can barely fit two cars across in there, and maybe not two big trucks. I do not want to outlaw parking there, because that would push it somewhere else, like onto Gridley for example.
Thanks
JB Leep
Here is the part about the Shiloh Terrace area:
We have already discussed some of this stuff. Some is new. I know we can’t fix all of it, but maybe some brainstorming by planning or public works can help fix it up a little.
So I tried to cross Old Redwood at Shiloh, northeast Esposti corner to northwest Shiloh Terrace at 10am this morning, I noticed the following:
It is not possible to see the “walk sign” turn green (or white I don’t remember which color it is). See the part with the white line around it. As a matter of fact, when I looked at my pictures, you also can’t see it in the pictures going the other way, northeast to southeast, but I can tell you, you can see it crossing Shiloh, but not Old Red. There are two reasons you can’t see it in front of Shiloh Terrace. One, the ambient lighting I guess. But two the signal light is mounted cockeyed. Here is a picture. I have bigger pictures if you want. Maybe someone could point it where the pedestrians would be.
I walked across the street in the crosswalk area and twisted my ankle on this pothole. I did not hurt myself, but it was irritating, and could be a lawsuit.
Then I went to walk down to Walmart, and I could not get to the nice sidewalk at Shiloh Terrace. It is fenced off.
I will say that coming back I realized that maybe it is desired that you should go the long way around, cross Shiloh going to the south, then east to west across Old Red, then back across Shiloh. I will point out at this time that it is not possible to press the “Cross the road” button on the Terrace corner, because it is inside the fence. If there were a passageway in that fence, things would be a lot better at that corner., you could press that button, and you could walk on the sidewalk. They have recently fixed up that fence, so it looks fairly good, but of course, you can see the mess of pylons and cones in these pictures. Or you could walk on the other side of the street, which is really not nice. Picture to show walking paths around the intersection.
Here’s a picture of how tight and possibly dangerous it is, which it would not be if the sidewalk were open. When a car comes around that corner, there is very little clearance. But you don’t know that if you have just crossed the street. I tried to capture here how dangerous the corner is the way I was navigating it, where nothing advising me not to.
So I walked along the side of Shiloh there, and at the end, there was a sign in a pile on the ground that says “Sidewalk Open”.
Along the way there are a few balconies that have reed fences in them that are really unsightly. Most HOAs have rule against these things, but I have not followed up on that.
Note the scary mess where you come around the corner.
Note how little room there is on Shiloh.
There’s no reason for this mess on the NW corner of the property.
