Sutter Village Owners Association was incorporated in 1983 by Powell Development.   A total of 158 single family homes have been built in this fully built-out association. Front yard maintenance, exterior painting including outside fences, and private street maintenance are included in the monthly dues.  The annual membership meeting is held in the month of May at the Gold River Community Center.  The Board of Directors are elected for a two year term and have monthly meetings held on the third Thursday of the month, 6:00 PM, at the Gold River Community Center. Members of this village may search or download their documents and handbook by CC&R Search. 

Settlement, rather than gold, was the theme of John A. Sutter's life,  Sutter founded a settlement which was the beginning of Sacramento, California's capital city, near the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers.  He encouraged immigration and aided immigrants.  Although the Gold Rush was not part of his plan, in the end it was responsible for the rapid settlement of the State.  The gold seekers established camps, many of which are now the picturesque towns of the Mother Lode, and populated Sutter's land grant.  But by 1852, Sutter was bankrupt.  He received a State pension for a time but never regained his lands.  He died in 1880.

Street names in Sutter Village recognize Sutter's part in the settlement of California.  The feeder streets are New Helvetia and Hock Farm, for the land grant that was the foundation of Sutter's empire and for the farm on the Feather River to which he retreated when it crumbled.  The main interior streets are named for the gold discovery site and for the fort that was Sutter's original settlement and his base of operations.

The cul-de-sacs bear the names of settlements in the Mother Lode.  Some of them were gold camps which flourished just long enough to acquire a post office, the status symbol of stability for a town.  Others survived to become towns of some note in the regions or were absorbed into adjacent towns.  The original names may have vanished, or they may linger as slightly disreputable nicknames for otherwise respectable towns.  Whether or not the names of the towns survive, they are all part of the history of California's settlement.