Editing Sugar Hill, Georgia (section)

==History==
Sugar Hill was established through a charter by the [[Georgia General Assembly|Georgia state assembly]] in 1939 as the Town of Sugar Hill<ref name="charter1939">{{Cite book |last=Georgia General Assembly |url=https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlgl_176455152 |title=Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia 1939 [volume 1] |date=1939 |pages=1302–1328 |chapter=Sugar Hill town charter. No. 321 |access-date=October 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023100854/https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlgl_176455152 |archive-date=October 23, 2023 |url-status=live |via=[[Georgia Library Learning Online|GALILEO]]}}</ref> and officially incorporated on March 24, 1939.<ref name="gagov">{{Cite web |title=Sugar Hill |url=http://georgia.gov/cities-counties/sugar-hill |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117054749/http://georgia.gov/cities-counties/sugar-hill |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |access-date=January 15, 2013 |publisher=georgia.gov}}</ref> The town was renamed the City of Sugar Hill in 1975.<ref name="charter1975">{{Cite book |last=Georgia General Assembly |url=https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlgl_358146257#text |title=Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia 1975 [volume 2] |date=1975 |pages=3232–3269 |chapter=City of Sugar Hill new charter. No. 227 (House Bill No. 233) |access-date=October 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023104931/https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlgl_358146257 |archive-date=October 23, 2023 |url-status=live |via=[[Georgia Library Learning Online|GALILEO]]}}</ref> Before the city was incorporated, the area was part of a route from the railroad in [[Buford, Georgia|Buford]] to the city of [[Cumming, Georgia|Cumming]]. According to local tradition, the town was named after an incident where a large shipment of sugar spilled and the area became known as "the hill where the sugar spilled" or "the sugar hill".<ref name="shhistory">{{Cite web |title=Our History |url=http://www.cityofsugarhill.com/content/68/180/default.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121214845/http://www.cityofsugarhill.com/content/68/180/default.aspx |archive-date=January 21, 2013 |access-date=January 15, 2013 |publisher=City of Sugar Hill, Georgia}}</ref>

In 2001, a drastic increase in [[natural gas]] prices, disproportionate to the cost of natural gas outside of Sugar Hill, resulted in residents forming "The Committee to Dissolve Sugar Hill", with over 1,600 residents signing a petition calling for a [[referendum]] to abolish both the municipal utility and the city itself.<ref name="creativeloafing">{{Cite web |last=Graham, Emily |date=March 28, 2001 |title=Making a city history - Sugar Hill latest among small cities targeted for extinction |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-183584-news---making-a-city-history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051229/http://clatl.com/atlanta/making-a-city-history/Content?oid=1230201 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |publisher=[[Creative Loafing]]}}</ref> State senator Billy Ray proposed a bill asking for a non-binding referendum.  The bill was passed in the state senate but failed to pass in the House, and the effort to revoke the city's charter was unsuccessful.<ref name="hb_green">{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2002 |title=Gwinnett County, Ga., Grows by Turning Inward. |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-91021993.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409162020/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-91021993.html |archive-date=April 9, 2016 |access-date=January 16, 2012 |publisher=[[Knight Ridder|Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News]] |via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> The city council responded to this effort by reducing the utility's prices to be comparable to those in the surrounding area.<ref name="hb_gas" />