Sutter Creek is in a very unique position to have and keep the historic bowl area in the present city that is essentially the same as it started out in the 1850s and continued until the Great Depression in 1932 that supposedly ended in 1936.

Between that time and World War II Walt Steel built the Mount Pleasant Subdivision at an elevation higher than the historic bowl basin.

After World War II Vic Evans built Sutter Oaks Subdivision across Highway 49 to the west of Mount Pleasant.

Since that time two other major subdivisions, Sutter Crest and Crest View have been built to the northwest also above the basin. To the south a mobile home park was built and commercial property has been developed in the Sutter Hill area, formerly known as Summit.

We now have a new subdivision development, the Gold Rush Ranch to the west of Sutter Hill. It cannot be seen or heard from the other developments mentioned above. It is a complete destination project with a 330-acre open space with maintained trails, a full sized golf course, a hotel, a swimming pool, a conventional park, a property dedicated for police, fire department, school location and a 3-acre library site.

It provides for all the areas of Sutter Creek, with a paid-for new Tertiary Sewer Plant and picks up the costs on all Gold Rush Ranch residential development that does not pay its own way. They must pay 1 million dollars for off site road improvements and another million for off site open space. They also pay for any costs to the city for providing services above what the revenue is that it brings in.

Reviewing the above I feel this major project is important to the city. I doubt there is any other city in the state that can have a historic town from the 1850s getting a new modern development completely isolated from the presently developed area.

The open area between these two areas will in time be filled by commercial development to be located on what will be called the Allen Ranch Road. This will provide income that the county supervisors took from us when they developed the Amador Ridge Subdivision without any monetary consideration for the towns around it.