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title: Duluth UDC § 507.02 — 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/507.02"
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# Duluth UDC § 507.02

Conservation Easements; Guidelines

**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:** 158–159
- **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

The following guidelines are required to be incorporated into any conservation easement, at a minimum, in a form
acceptable to the City Attorney:

a. The easement recognizes and describes in a statement of purpose the special qualities of the property

subject to the easement. Conditions within the tract subject to the conservation easement may be shown
by map and/or photograph;
b. The easement clearly identifies the owner of the property subject to the easement, the holder of the

easement, and the responsibilities of the property owner and easement holder;
c.
The easement specifically and clearly identifies the boundaries of the property subject to the easement,
either by metes and bounds legal description, survey plat or reference to the easement area shown on
the final subdivision plat;
d. The easement contains restrictions as to what the owner may do with the property and specifically

delineates what may not be done with the property. Limitations shall be consistent with the type of area

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Article Five. Subdivisions and Planned Developments

protected and the applicable requirements of this Article to such areas, and may include but shall not be
confined to prohibitions against subdivision, earthmoving, dumping, signs, utility lines, construction,
changes to existing structures, and uses made of the property;
e. The easement provides for the right of the easement holder to inspect the property to assure observance

of restrictions and provides for enforcement procedures;
f.
The easement provides for the maintenance of the open space; and
g.
The easement contains provisions governing its amendment, including provisions that the easement shall
not be altered or terminated except with the express written permission of all entities having either a
property right or enforcement right in the easement.