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title: Duluth UDC § 1207.03 — 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"
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# Duluth UDC § 1207.03

Action by the City Council

**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:** 12 — Appeals
- **Pages in source:** 372–373
- **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. Upon receiving a notice of an administrative appeal, the Planning and Development Director shall
assemble such memos, papers, plans, or other documents from the appellant as may constitute the
record for the appeal or as may provide an understanding of the issues involved.
2. The Planning and Development Director is authorized to resolve the administrative appeal to the
satisfaction of all parties involved, if possible, and may seek the advice of the City Attorney.
3. The Planning and Development Director shall transmit any unresolved administrative appeal request and
all related documentation to the City Clerk such that the administrative appeal request can be considered
by the City Council within 30 days of the filing of the appeal with the Planning and Development Director.
4. The City Council shall consider the appeal at its next regularly scheduled meeting that occurs at least 7
days after receipt of the Planning and Development Director’s appeal documentation by the City Clerk,
and may at its discretion hear from the appellant, the administrative official from whom the appeal is
taken, or the Planning and Development Director.
5. City Council authority. The City Council is authorized to:
a. Decide appeals from any order, determination, decision or other interpretation by any

administrative official acting under authority of this Development Code, where a
misinterpretation or misapplication of the requirements or other provisions of this Development
Code is alleged;
b. Interpret the use of words or phrases within the context of the intent of this Development Code;
c.
Determine the boundaries of the various zoning districts where uncertainty exists; and,
d. Interpret such other provisions of this Development Code as may require clarification or

extension in specific or general cases.
6. Decisions of the City Council.

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Article Twelve. Appeals

a. In exercising its powers on administrative appeals, the City Council may reverse or affirm, wholly

or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision or determination and to that end shall
have all the powers of the administrative official from whom the appeal is taken.
7. Decision final. The decision of the City Council shall be final and may be appealed only to a court of
competent jurisdiction. Such appeal must be taken within 15 days of the adoption of the minutes of the
City Council meeting at which the decision was made.