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title: Duluth UDC § 303.03 — Duluth
jurisdiction: duluth
governing_jurisdiction: Duluth
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effective_date: "2026-07-13"
as_of: "2026-08-13"
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# Duluth UDC § 303.03

Maximum Maintained Illuminance Level

**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:** 3 — Restrictions on Particular Uses
- **Pages in source:** 95–96
- **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

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303.03. Maximum Maintained Illuminance Level
The maximum maintained illuminance levels permitted at the property line(s)
during the nighttime, produced by the sum of all outdoor area lighting installations on said property, shall be at
grade in Horizontal Footcandles or Horizontal Lux according to Table 3 A.

a. Exceptions.

1. By written agreement between the respective property owners, an outdoor lighting installation
on one property may illuminate area or roadways on adjacent properties beyond the property
line. In such a case, a lighting easement must be submitted to the City and recorded with Clerk of
Courts of Gwinnett County.
2. This requirement does not apply to outdoor roadway lighting installations intended for the
nighttime illumination of public roadways, streets, highways, alleys, cartways, and the like.
3. At designated vehicular, cyclist, and pedestrian entries/exits between properties and public
roadways, streets, highways, alleys, cartways, and the like; provided that the excepted area of
illumination (maintained illuminance levels at grade higher than permitted in Table 3-A is limited
to the said property and the adjoining pavement and right-of-way of public road-ways, streets,
highways, alleys, cartways and the like. The excepted area of illumination shall not extend
beyond 50 feet from the centerline of the designated entry/exit in any direction along the
property lines of said property.

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Article Three. Restrictions on Particular Uses