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title: Duluth UDC § 829 — 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/829"
licence: "CC0-1.0"
---

# Duluth UDC § 829

Purpose and Intent

**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:** 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

The purpose of this Division VI of this Article is to protect, maintain and enhance the public health, safety,
environment and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in flood hazard
areas, as well as to protect the beneficial uses of floodplain areas for water quality protection, streambank and
stream corridor protection, wetlands preservation and ecological and environmental protection by provisions
designed to:

1. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against
flood damage at the time of initial construction;
2. Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to flooding or erosion
hazards, or which increase flood heights, velocities, or erosion;
3. Control filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase flood damage or erosion;
4. Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which
may increase flood hazards to other lands;
5. Limit the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers which are
involved in the accommodation of flood waters; and,
6. Protect the stormwater management, water quality, streambank protection, stream corridor protection,
wetland preservation and ecological functions of natural floodplain areas.