Gold Rush Ranch developers Monday dumped in the laps of Sutter Creek planning commissioners a list of objections to city-crafted strictures, sat back and watched while the board wrestled for two hours with the objections, and then walked out early Tuesday morning with a 3-2 commission approval of a city-written plan that would allow the development to move forward if approved by the City Council.

Planning Commission approval of what is called a specific plan for Gold Rush Ranch is crucial progress for the controversial 1,334-house golf-course subdivision project. The city plan installs dozens of strictures tighter than contained in a developer-authored draft specific plan.

Developer Bill Bunce said after the meeting he believed it wasn't obvious why the presentation was made commenting on the additional requirements installed by the city in its plan.

"We were legally committed to comment on the Planning Commission changes," Bunce said.