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title: Duluth UDC § 1122.02 — 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/1122.02"
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# Duluth UDC § 1122.02

Street Names

**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:** 11 — Procedures and Permits
- **Pages in source:** 333
- **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

1. Proposed street names must be reviewed and approved by the Gwinnett County Department of Planning
and Development prior to approval of a Final Plat for recording. Street names may be reserved through
approval of a Concept Plan, PUD Master Concept Plan or Preliminary Plat for the subdivision. Proposed
names for private streets shall follow the same rules as for public streets.
2. Street names shall consist of a root name of the developer's choosing and a suffix designation (“Street”,
“Avenue”, “Drive”, etc.) and shall be followed by a quadrant suffix. Directional prefixes (“North”, “South”,
etc.) and the prefixes “old” or “new” shall not be used.
3. A proposed street that is obviously in alignment with another already existing and named street shall bear
the name of such existing street, unless this requirement is waived by the Gwinnett County Departments
of Public Safety and the Duluth Police Department.
4. Except within the same development, no proposed street name shall duplicate (be spelled the same or be
phonetically the same) as an existing street name within Gwinnett County regardless of the use of such
“Street”, “Avenue”, “Boulevard” “Drive”, “Place”, “Way”, “Court” or however otherwise designated. In
the same development, a root name may not occur more than twice.
5. All street root names and suffix designations are subject to the approval of the County. Obscene or
otherwise unacceptable language, abbreviations, contractions, or initials may not be used.
6. Root names shall consist of no more than 13 characters including space, hyphens, etc. Letters not
occurring in the English alphabet, and numerals, shall not be used.
7. All streets shall bear the proper quadrant suffix appropriate to its location within the City (i.e., NE, NW, SE
and SW), as determined by Gwinnett County Traffic Engineering.