The new site was said to be less environmentally sensitive, and more compliant with the county's land use plan, which had designated the Stony Point Road site for open space.
The tribe announced in August 2005 that the planned site would move again, this time to a 90-acre site on Wilfred Avenue, closer to the city limits. A new site on 360 acres of land west of Rohnert Park, on Stony Point Road, was announced in August 2003, with strong support from city officials. The plan sparked widespread criticism about the potential effects on wetland restoration efforts and increased traffic on Highway 37, leading the tribe to consider other locations in Rohnert Park and Petaluma. The tribe announced plans in February 2003 for a casino to be built at a 1,700-acre site on Sears Point, near the shore of San Pablo Bay. In November 2016 it opened an adjacent hotel with 200 rooms. The casino has 3,000 slot machines, 144 table games, and a poker room. It is owned and operated by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. Graton Resort & Casino is an Indian casino and hotel outside Rohnert Park, California, that opened on November 5, 2013.
