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title: Duluth UDC § 507.01 — 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 § 507.01

Conservation Easements; Creation

**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:** 158
- **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, et seq., which is known as the “Georgia Uniform Conservation Easement Act.”
b. The conservation easement shall be approved by the City Council and shall be granted at no cost to a

charitable corporation, charitable association or charitable trust that qualifies as a “holder” under the
Georgia Uniform Conservation Easement Act.
c.
Such “holder” shall be approved by the City Council on the basis of their past experience as a “holder” of
conservation easements and their lack of an ownership or corporate relationship with the owner or
developer of the project.
d. The conservation easement shall grant a third-party right of enforcement to the Duluth City Council to

enforce, at its discretion, any of the terms of the conservation easement.
e. The conservation easement may not be granted to the owner of the property to which the easement will

apply, including a homeowners’ association holding natural resource conservation areas as common open
space in an open space subdivision or planned development.
f.
An undivided property ownership interest in the common open space shall be granted to each property in
an open space subdivision or planned development.