An out-of-the-blue request by Sutter Creek for a new school campus, a firm request for a new fire station and responsibilities to provide additional "extras" now face developers of the proposed Gold Rush Ranch subdivision.

With a narrow 3-2 Planning Commission approval in hand for the proposed Gold Rush Ranch and Golf Resort development, Sutter Creek City Council members are proceeding deliberately.

More than a month has passed since the commission's Aug. 24 approval of the controversial 1,334-house golf-course subdivision project.

A city council extra session Wednesday night called into question whether Sutter Creek would approve as many as the 1,334 houses proposed. It also revealed a lengthy list of conditions, many proposed by the city planning commission, developers would have to fulfill in any approved project. Developers have already gone on record before the planning commission as opposing several of them.

According to city consultant Andy Hauge, the list includes the following:

- Phase I housing - "restricted" grading only, no more-intrusive "general" grading

- oak woodlands - meeting Planning Commission directives expected to result in greater protection of oaks than proposed by developers

- project size - no agreement exists yet that Sutter Creek would allow as many as 1,334 houses

- phasing - to be built no later than Phase I would be a hotel, a community park, an 18-hole golf course, trails and vacation units.

- traffic mitigation - in accordance with recommendations of a newly formed committee, supplying extensive mitigation measures for auto traffic

- affordable housing - build housing whose pricing matches state-set criteria for "low-income" and "moderate-income" households

- fiscal impact - in accordance with recommendations by a newly formed committee, assuring the project will "cover costs" to Sutter Creek

- construction - building a new school campus and a new fire station

- funding for open-space preservation off-site - paying $1 million with issuance of first building permit

- alternative transportation, auto-traffic mitigation - laying a no-vehicles path between residences and a planned drugstore site, and

- land use - if no golf course is built within 10 years, dedicating land zoned for a course to the city.

"They will meet next on Oct. 19," Hauge said. "We may hear that they may need a meeting in November. The public hearing is complete."

Officials hope to have reports on progress in project planning available to the public by Oct. 15, Hauge said.