Amador County – The Sutter Creek Planning Commission sought a revision to the Gold Rush Ranch & Golf Resort “Specific Plan” Wednesday night, looking to “fold in” its preferences to make the plan adhere to the city General Plan. Consultant for Gold Rush, Greg Bardini, gave details of the specific plan, which he acknowledged was written before the planning commission had poured through the project to determine its general plan consistency. Commissioner Frank Cunha said he thought the “document should be updated to reflect everything that (they had) done in the last 5 meetings.” But he noted that the landscaping element was very extensive and something the city needed to do itself. City consultant Anders Hauge said he had not thought of going through and making updating the specific plan, but doing so could not be done before Monday’s scheduled next meeting on Gold Rush. Cunha said the commission had spent a lot of time on the subject and had “discussed 90 percent of the things in this document.” Commissioner Mike Kirkley agreed, saying a meeting Monday would “not be very productive.” Commission Chairman Robin Peters agreed, saying he thought “someone should take the general plan recommendations and fold it into this document.” He did “not want to submit a document that isn’t something the planning commission completed.” Cunha said even through the consistency analysis, they saw how the applicant disagreed with some recommendations, including the fact that in the General Plan, there is not “General Grading” category, though Bardini’s presentation included that type of grading. Bardini said the “intent of the specific plan is that it matches the mitigations.” The commissioners canceled the Monday meeting and asked for the document’s revision to be brought to the next regular Planning Commission meeting, Tuesday, January 12th. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday, 04 December 2008 23:40
Sutter Creek Gold Rush
Amador County – The Sutter Creek Planning Commission sought a revision to the Gold Rush Ranch & Golf Resort “Specific Plan” Wednesday night, looking to “fold in” its preferences to make the plan adhere to the city General Plan. Consultant for Gold Rush, Greg Bardini, gave details of the specific plan, which he acknowledged was written before the planning commission had poured through the project to determine its general plan consistency. Commissioner Frank Cunha said he thought the “document should be updated to reflect everything that (they had) done in the last 5 meetings.” But he noted that the landscaping element was very extensive and something the city needed to do itself. City consultant Anders Hauge said he had not thought of going through and making updating the specific plan, but doing so could not be done before Monday’s scheduled next meeting on Gold Rush. Cunha said the commission had spent a lot of time on the subject and had “discussed 90 percent of the things in this document.” Commissioner Mike Kirkley agreed, saying a meeting Monday would “not be very productive.” Commission Chairman Robin Peters agreed, saying he thought “someone should take the general plan recommendations and fold it into this document.” He did “not want to submit a document that isn’t something the planning commission completed.” Cunha said even through the consistency analysis, they saw how the applicant disagreed with some recommendations, including the fact that in the General Plan, there is not “General Grading” category, though Bardini’s presentation included that type of grading. Bardini said the “intent of the specific plan is that it matches the mitigations.” The commissioners canceled the Monday meeting and asked for the document’s revision to be brought to the next regular Planning Commission meeting, Tuesday, January 12th. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
