Local brief
Limited curbside access gets a study—but on the city's 2028–29 work list
The adopted comprehensive plan calls for studying trash and recycling collection, not launching city-run pickup. GFL's private-customer arrangement is separate.
Chattahoochee Hills’ comprehensive plan, adopted in October, acknowledges limited access to curbside trash and recycling services. Its response includes a collection-service study—but the work program places that assignment in 2028 and 2029.[1]
Item CF.5 calls for studying current collection services and developing a strategy for improvement. The program assigns the work to the city, lists staff time as the estimated cost and identifies the general fund as its funding source. Those are planning years for a study and strategy, not a promised start date for city-run pickup.[1]
The issue also surfaced during public engagement: the plan says some participants identified trash and recycling services among their priorities. The adopted work item does not itself establish a collection contract, a household service package or new rates.[1]
That planning assignment is separate from the arrangement covered in our report on GFL’s resident pricing. The city’s GFL notice describes a nonexclusive franchise and says the city is not under contract with the company for service or billing; transactions are between GFL and its customers.[2]
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2 official sources cited in this report. The bracketed numbers in the text link here.