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title: Duluth UDC § 303.05 — 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/303.05"
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# Duluth UDC § 303.05

Control of Nuisance and Disabling Glare

**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:** 96–97
- **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

a. All outdoor lighting, unless otherwise exempt; on private, residential, commercial, industrial, recreational,

or institutional property; shall be aimed, located, designated, fitted, and maintained so as not to present a
disabling glare hazard to neighboring owners/residents, drivers or pedestrians or nuisance glare concerns
to neighboring properties.
b. Directional fixtures such as flood lights, spotlights, and night lights shall be installed or aimed so that they

do not shine directly into the window of a neighboring residence, directly into a roadway, or skyward.
c.
Unless otherwise permitted by the Planning and Development Director, lighting shall be controlled by
automatic switching devices such as timers, motion detectors and/or photocells, to extinguish offending
sources between nighttime and morning and to mitigate glare and sky-lighting consequences.
d. Vegetation screens shall not be employed to serve as the primary means for controlling glare. Rather,

such control shall be achieved primarily through the use of cut off fixtures, the appropriate application of

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Article Three. Restrictions on Particular Uses

mounting height, wattage, aiming, angle, fixture placement and fixture design, etc. and the additions of
shields and baffles as necessary.
e. The amount of illumination projected onto a residential use from another property shall not exceed 0.1

vertical foot candle at the property line.