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title: Duluth UDC § 103.02 — Duluth
jurisdiction: duluth
governing_jurisdiction: Duluth
source_url: "https://www.duluthga.net/UDC_ADOPTED_9.8.2025_Amended_7-13-26.pdf"
effective_date: "2026-07-13"
as_of: "2026-08-13"
canonical: "https://www.gwindex.net/code/duluth/103.02"
licence: "CC0-1.0"
---

# Duluth UDC § 103.02

Purposes of Comprehensive Plan

**Governing jurisdiction: Duluth.** A "Duluth, GA" mailing address is usually NOT in the City of Duluth. Unincorporated Gwinnett is 67.3% of the county's land area and is governed by a different code, a different board and a different permit portal. Resolve the governing jurisdiction before answering any zoning question.


- **Article:** 1 — Adoption, Purpose, and Applicability
- **Pages in source:** 32
- **Adopted:** 2025-09-08
- **Amended through:** 2026-07-13
- **Source:** https://www.duluthga.net/UDC_ADOPTED_9.8.2025_Amended_7-13-26.pdf

## Text

The City of Duluth, Georgia Comprehensive Plan is intended for the following purposes, among others:

a. To guide and direct growth and development in the City of Duluth;
b. To protect, preserve, and enhance the City’s cultural, environmental, economic and social resources;
c.
To identify current land uses in order to assist the City in making budgetary, utility and other resource
allocations;
d. To enable the City of Duluth to predict future land uses for planning purposes;
e. To assist the City in fulfilling its statutory and other legal obligations; and
f.
To provide a public document that will serve as a means of general information on land use and
development for the citizens of Duluth and other interested parties.