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title: Duluth UDC § 504.01 — 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 § 504.01

Intent and Purpose

**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:** 5 — Subdivisions and Planned Developments
- **Pages in source:** 152–153
- **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. Encourage larger scale planned development which will produce a logically organized and
compatible set of land uses resulting in a higher overall quality of Planning and Development
than if accomplished in incremental unplanned stages.

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Article Five. Subdivisions and Planned Developments

2. Allow a mixture and/or density of land uses not otherwise allowed in an established zoning
district; by careful site planning the appropriate site improvements are incorporated into the
plan that establish compatible relationships between the uses within the site and uses adjacent
to the site.
3. Encourage creative site design which seeks to preserve the open space and unique
environmental features, conserve energy through efficient building design and clustering,
efficiently use the land, and increase the efficiency of public service delivery.
4. Provide flexibility in the application of area, height, bulk, placement and other zoning controls.
5. Promote land development in proper relation to the surrounding neighborhood.
6. Ensure that the design of the building forms is interrelated and architecturally harmonious.
7. To be applied in a manner consistent with the Land Use Plan for the City of Duluth.
b. Planned Unit Development Districts are separate zoning districts and shall follow the same amendment

procedures as other zoning districts. Unless otherwise stated in this Article, the development standards
and the land uses that are presented with the application for amendment, shall, if approved, become the
standards for the subject property and shall become a part of the zoning approval.
c.
Any PUD that was approved prior to the adoption of this Development Code or amendments to the Code
shall continue to be developed under the provisions and conditions of zoning approval that applied at the
time of rezoning.