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title: Duluth UDC § 342.02 — 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/342.02"
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# Duluth UDC § 342.02

Purposes

**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:** 114–115
- **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. Provide for the appropriate location and development of wireless facilities and support structures to serve

the residents and businesses of the City of Duluth;

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Article Three. Restrictions on Particular Uses

b. Protect the City of Duluth’s built and natural environment by promoting

compatible standards for wireless facilities and support structures;
c.
Minimize adverse visual impacts of wireless facilities and support structures
through careful design, siting, landscape screening and innovative
camouflaging techniques;
d. Avoid potential damage to adjacent properties from wireless facility and

support structure failure through engineering and careful siting of wireless
facilities and support structures;
e. Maximize use of any new and existing wireless support structures (towers) so

as to minimize the need to construct new towers and minimize the total
number of towers throughout the City;
f.
Maximize and encourage use of alternative telecommunication tower
structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single-use
towers;
g.
Encourage and promote the location of new wireless facilities and support
structures in areas which are not zoned for residential use;