The Garden City Council meets the first and third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. with a pre-agenda meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m. Meetings are held at Garden City City Hall, 100 Central Avenue. For dates and times of special call meetings, workshops and/or public hearings, contact the Clerk of Council at (912) 966-7777 or view the calendar here and find meeting minutes here. Find meeting videos on the city’s Youtube page and they are also streamed here.
The agenda for the July 6 meeting is not available.
GARDEN CITY NEWS
Garden City imposes data center moratorium
On June 15, The Garden City Council unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on new data center applications and permits, temporarily halting the acceptance, processing and issuance of approvals for new data centers while the city studies their potential impacts and considers zoning regulations tailored to the industry. The resolution applies to facilities that house computer servers and related infrastructure, including artificial intelligence processing and digital asset mining operations, but exempts existing data centers, complete applications already submitted and internal server rooms incidental to a business, school or government building. The moratorium is intended to give city officials time to review issues such as electrical demand, water consumption, noise from cooling systems and generators, and other land-use impacts before allowing additional development.
Garden City settles fire fee litigation
On Dec. 13, the Garden City Council held a special called meeting and approved a resolution resolving pending litigation entitled “Bobby Black, Plaintiff, vs. Garden City, Georgia, Defendant, Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia, Civil Action Number SPCV25-01358-ST.
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