Duluth UDC § 1115.04
House Location Plan (HLP)
Governing jurisdiction
Duluth
Land inside these city limits is governed by Duluth's own code and boards. A "Duluth, GA" mailing address is not proof of being inside them — most such addresses fall in unincorporated Gwinnett.
Boundary: US Census TIGERweb (Incorporated Places, ACS 2025 vintage), vintage 2025.
- Article
- 11 — Procedures and Permits
- Pages in source
- 321–323
- Adopted
- 2025-09-08
- Amended through
- 2026-07-13
- Source
- Adopted PDF
Text
House Location Plans, when required, must meet the following requirements:
1. House Location Plans shall be drawn to scale and may be shown on a certified boundary survey of the lot
or any other drawing showing the information required. The HLP may be combined with a Residential
Drainage Plan (RDP) if both are required for the lot.
2. It is not the intent that the House Location Plan be prepared by a registered surveyor or engineer but said
plan must be done with sufficient accuracy to ensure that the proposed improvements will be constructed
in conformance with the regulations of this Development Code, as applicable.
3. House Location Plans shall show the following information as applicable:
a. Boundary lines of the lot, giving distances to the nearest one-tenth of a foot and bearings to the
nearest minute.
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b. Location and names of all abutting streets or other rights-of-way. If the lot is located in a
subdivision served by private streets, the following notations shall be placed on the HLP:
i. NOTIFICATION OF PRIVATE STREETS. This lot is served by a private street. Any such
private street is owned and maintained by the Homeowners Association of the
development and is not owned or maintained by the City of Duluth. No public funds of
the City are to be used to build, repair or maintain these private streets. The owners,
purchasers, lenders, heirs, assigns or other parties taking title to or otherwise procuring
an interest in any portion of this property are ultimately responsible for such
maintenance and repairs, individually or through the Homeowner’s Association.
c.
Minimum front, side and rear setback lines with dimensions, and notation of the existing zoning
on the property.
d. The approximate outline of all buildings, driveways, parking areas, swimming pools, recreational
courts, patios, accessory structures and other improvements existing or proposed on the
property, including dimensions on all improvements and distances of each to the nearest
property lines.
e. All easements, public water, sewer or storm drainage facilities traversing or located on the
property, and septic tank and drain fields, if any.
f.
Subdivision name, lot designation, land lot, and district.
g.
North arrow and scale.
h. Limits of the 100-year floodplain, if applicable, and any required buffers or special setback lines.
i.
If the lot is located within the Chattahoochee River Corridor, the location of each area by
vulnerability category and calculations of impervious surface and clearance by category, or other
such data required in accordance with the Certification for the subdivision approved under the
Metropolitan River Protection Act. Show any buffer or setback required under said Act.
j.
All other applicable requirements of this Development Code.
k.
Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of both the owner of the property and the person
preparing the House Location Plan.
4. If a lot is located in the Chattahoochee River Corridor, a Certificate of Occupancy shall not be issued for
the structure or any other improvements until conformance to the provisions or other requirements of
the House Location Plan have been field verified by the builder’s surveyor and submitted to the Planning
and Development Department.
5. The House Location Plan shall contain the following signature block. If the HLP is required because of
floodplain on the lot, the language contained in the brackets below must be included; otherwise, said
bracketed language should be deleted from the signature block.
a. This House Location Plan has been reviewed for general compliance with the Unified
Development Code of the City of Duluth, Georgia, and is hereby approved for issuance of a
Building Permit for the residential structure and other improvements shown hereon. [No framing
inspection will be approved until a certification of the elevation of the lowest floor, as built,
prepared by a Registered Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer, has been received by the
Department.] This approval is granted with the provision that no Certificate of Occupancy shall
be issued for completion of construction until conformance to this House Location Plan has been
field verified by the Department of Planning and Development or verified by an “as-built” survey
prepared for the builder by a Registered Land Surveyor and submitted to the Planning and
Development Department.
____________________________________________________ _____________________
Director, Department of Planning and Development
Date
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