Sutter Creek – The Sutter Creek City Council began looking at the Gold Rush Ranch & Gold Resort plans in a special meeting Friday night, hearing from many people that they did not support back-to-back meetings. The council looks at Gold Rush at 6 p.m. today and has a tentative continuance meeting Wednesday, if work is not finished. The same plan was made for a meeting next Tuesday, with a Wednesday continuance possible. Councilman Pat Crosby said he expected the meeting Friday to be between the council and Gold Rush Ranch developers. Instead, contract consultant Anders Hauge gave a brief presentation on the aspects of the Gold Rush Environmental Impact Report, which covers city General Plan amendments, the Gold Rush specific plan, a phased “tentative subdivision map”, zoning ordinance amendments, and a development agreement. Mayor Gary Wooten said “workshop to get the council up to speed on all the multiple issues that need to be addressed.” City Attorney Dennis Crabb and EIR specialist Bob Delp were slated to give presentations, but both missed the meeting. Hauge said Crabb will answer questions about the development agreement in the meeting set for 6 p.m. today, at the Sutter Creek Auditorium. The development agreement is still being worked on by the city council and the applicants. Crosby said he was “not seeing” what he expected, which was a discussion between the council and the applicants, to “find out what they want to do and how they want to pay for it.” Crosby said they should “cut to the chase and get the council and the applicant in open session and discuss what we want.” Hauge said “the hard negotiations should come up right after the public hearing” today, in a meeting that could be continued to tomorrow night. Crosby said he did not “like the idea of arbitrarily setting these dates” and that tomorrow he has an Amador County Transportation Agency board meeting that he really wanted to attend. Wooten said he wanted to stick with the schedule, but schedule changes could be made if there was “enough conflict.” Crosby said Mondays, regular city council and planning commission meeting days, were the days for him. He said “there’s plenty of time” and he saw “no rushes whatsoever” because “there will be no development happening in California anytime soon.” The meeting is set for 6 p.m. today at the Sutter Creek Auditorium. Story by Jim Reece This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it