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title: Duluth UDC § 828 — 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/828"
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---

# Duluth UDC § 828

Findings

**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:** 8 — Environmental Protection
- **Pages in source:** 231–232
- **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

It is hereby determined that:

1. The flood hazard areas of the city are subject to periodic inundations which may result in loss of life and
property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary
public expenditures for flood relief and protection, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely
affect the public health, safety and general welfare.
2. Flood hazard areas can serve important stormwater management, water quality, streambank protection,
stream corridor protection, wetland preservation and ecological purposes when permanently protected
as undisturbed or minimally disturbed areas.
3. Effective floodplain management and flood hazard protection activities can:
a. Protect human life and health;
b. Minimize damage to private property;
c.
Minimize damage to public facilities and infrastructure such as water and gas mains, electric,
telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in floodplains; and
d. Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects associated with flooding

and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public.
4. Article IX, Section II of the Constitution of the State of Georgia and O.C.G.A. § 36-1-20(a) has delegated
the responsibility to local governmental units to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health,
safety, and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the city does ordain this Code Division and
establishes this set of floodplain management and flood hazard reduction policies for the purpose of
regulating the use of flood hazard areas. It is determined that the regulation of flood hazard areas and the
prevention of flood damage are in the public interest and will minimize threats to public health and
safety, as well as to private and public property.

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Article Eight. Environmental Protection