Notice of Availability
Gold Rush Ranch and Golf Resort Project
Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report Sections
State Clearinghouse No. 2005042094

Lead Agency:
City of Sutter Creek
18 Main Street
Sutter Creek, CA  95685
City Contact:
Mary Beth Van Voorhis
(209) 267-5647
goldrushranch@ci.sutter-creek.ca.us
The City of Sutter Creek (City) is conducting environmental review of an application submitted to
the City by Gold Rush Ranch, LLC (Applicant) for City approvals associated with the Gold Rush
Ranch and Golf Resort project (Project). The City’s approvals will permit the development of a
golf course, residential, commercial and other land uses within an approximately 945-acre area
southwest of the City’s downtown area.  (See page 2 of this notice for a map showing the location
of the Project.)
The Project will provide entitlements and permit the development of an 18-hole golf course, a
combined golf and community clubhouse, 1,334 single-family residences, 300 interval-ownership
vacation units, a 60-room hotel, up to 57,000 square feet of neighborhood commercial uses and a
police/fire station site within the 945-acre Project site.  Two sites totaling approximately 20 acres
will be dedicated to the City for passive recreational uses and approximately 300 acres of the site
will be dedicated to the City for permanently preserved natural open space with hiking trails.
Disposal of approximately 347 acre-feet per year of treated wastewater effluent from the City’s
wastewater treatment plant will occur through use of this water for golf course and public
landscaping irrigation following the City’s conversion of its wastewater treatment plant to a tertiary
treatment facility.  The Project is located southwest of the developed area of Sutter Creek (see map
inset on following page) and the site is comprised of 19 individual parcels (APN Numbers 044-
430-001 through -016 and 011-330-001 through 003).
The Project requires the City’s adoption of a specific plan, approval of a vesting large-lot tentative
subdivision map, amendment of the City General Plan, and amendment of the City’s zoning
ordinance.  The City will enter into a development agreement with the Applicant that will establish
responsibilities and commitments associated with Project implementation.  The Project requires the
annexation of an unincorporated portion of the Project site into the City of Sutter Creek and Sutter
Creek Fire Protection District, and detachment of this area from the Amador Fire Protection
District.  The Project will require pre-zoning of the areas proposed for annexation.  The
reorganization will require approval by the Amador Local Agency Formation Commission
(LAFCO).
Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and in its capacity as the CEQA
lead agency for environmental review of the Project, the City filed a Draft Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) for the Project with the State Clearinghouse on June 30, 2008 (SCH# 2005042094).
The Draft EIR was circulated for public and agency review and comment during a 60-day period
ending August 29, 2008.
During the period since circulation of the Draft EIR, the City has prepared a revised transportation
impact study for the Project.  Based on the information in the revised transportation impact study,
the City determined that certain traffic operations information contained in the June 30, 2008 Draft
EIR requires revision and recirculation prior to the completion of a Final EIR for the Project.  The
revisions to the Draft EIR are included in the March 20, 2009 Gold Rush Ranch and Golf Resort
Project Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report Sections document which is available for
public and agency review for a 45-day period, ending Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
The Revised Draft EIR Sections document is
available at the following locations:
Internet
ci.sutter-creek.ca.us
City Hall
18 Main Street
Sutter Creek, California 95685
Amador County Main Library
530 Sutter Street
Jackson, California  95642
Written comments on the Revised Draft EIR Sections
document are to be sent to:
Ms. Mary Beth Van Voorhis
18 Main Street
Sutter Creek, CA  95685
or via email to Ms. Van Voorhis at:
goldrushranch@ci.sutter-creek.ca.us

Written comments submitted via electronic mail must be included in the body text of the email
message or as an attached file in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF format.  Please include
the following phrase in the email subject line “Gold Rush Revised Draft EIR Comments”.
The public will have the opportunity to comment on the revised Draft EIR sections and traffic
operations analysis at a public hearing before the City Planning Commission on Monday, April 27,
2009 at the City’s Community Building located at 33 Church Street in Sutter Creek.  The meeting
will begin at 7:00 PM.
Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5(f)(2), comments pertaining to the revised Draft EIR
sections will be considered by the City in its preparation of the Final EIR and the City will provide
responses to those comments in the Final EIR.  Comments previously submitted during the June
30, 2008 Draft EIR 60-day circulation period will also be included in the Final EIR and the City’s
responses to those comments will be provided.  The Final EIR will not respond to comments
submitted during the revised Draft EIR sections review period that do not address the revised Draft
EIR sections.
All comments on the revised Draft EIR sections must be submitted to the City by no later
than 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 5, 2009.