At a Glance

Here are just some of the destructive environmental impacts of this development:

  • Open space is unusable due to 30% slopes
  • Historical sites destroyed
  • Expose dangerous toxics from mine tailings
  • Creates leapfrog development
  • Impacts the night sky

The Environmental Damage

Gold Rush will tell you their development will preserve open space. It is true that approximately 300 acres of the project site is set aside for open space, but much of that is unusable with 30% slopes. The rest of the site, some 600+ acres, will be converted from oak woodland and savannah to urban sprawl.

MAJOR grading is needed to recontour the site. View the grading maps for the project.

This project will irreversibly damage our precious agricultural land, some of which doesn't even lie within the current Sutter Creek limits.

Read comment letters about Gold Rush's environmental destruction from Master Gardener Jill North, The California Oak Foundation and The Amador Oak Woodland Conservation Group.