City Council - Regular Meeting

Thursday, July 9, 2026Official site

The Valdosta City Council approved a rezoning request and a conditional use permit for a mobile home, the latter after significant public discussion. The Council also approved several bids for city department vehicles and equipment, and a land transfer for industrial development. Public comments largely focused on concerns about a new trash collection policy and housing issues.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Valdosta, GA
Meeting Date
July 9, 2026

Published excerpts

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2 sections

12:46 – 13:28•Sandra Tooley

Yeah. The reason I asked about that, I know we, we talked about it once before when we were talking about, um. Keeping, I guess, keeping the, you know, keeping the area kind of like, as it has been and about putting. Mobile homes or trailers and different when a, you know, when a house was there, we put a house back. Uh, if it was a mobile home there, we have to look at in considerations and I know they said, uh, we have some really nice mobile homes. I've seen them and they're anchored down. They look like houses. Are we given these conditions? That they got, you know, how they're going to be

1:02:45 – 1:08:15•Sandra Tooley

Okay, I do wanna say something about our garbage collection. I agree with a lot of you talking about with the trash cans being open. Um, I have not yet and I'm going back again and look for that way to say they have to be completely closed. We did get that information and we did talk to our staff and we asked them to show some pictures and they did get some flyers out with the pictures now. I don't know. And I'm going to tell you what I told the staff. Common sense. It's hardly hard to find pretty much all those trash cans with the lid completely closed. But would it all the way open or would

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