As the city of San Diego rolls out its new trash system, charging for pickup for the first time ever, thousands of properties have been deemed ineligible for city service. The city says those that have not made an effort to line up a private hauler will face a fine next month.

About 20,000 properties will no longer receive city pickup, places like commercial or multi-use buildings, gated communities, properties without enough space to store containers, and properties with five or more residences on a single lot.

Of those, about 75% have found a private hauler, the city said, leaving about 5,000 properties that do not have service lined up.

“For those that haven’t yet, we standby to help them, to communicate with them, to help connect them with information on the available private hauler

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