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title: Duluth UDC § 904 — 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/904"
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# Duluth UDC § 904

Access Requirements

**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:** 9 — Project Design and Construction Standards
- **Pages in source:** 244
- **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

904.01. Access
1. No subdivision shall be designed so as to completely eliminate street access to adjoining parcels of land.
Every development shall be designed to facilitate access to adjoining properties which are developed or
anticipated to be developed in a manner substantially similar to the subject property. Locations of
interparcel access shall be as required by and subject to the approval of the Planning and Development
Department.
2. Any lot required to provide minimum frontage by the zoning district in which the lot is located shall
provide vehicular access directly from a public street along the frontage or along any other property line
which abuts a public street, except as provided in Section 904.01(4)(e).
3. Private streets as may be approved under the provisions of this Code shall be constructed to the roadway
construction standards of the City of Duluth, as contained herein.
4. Vehicular access easements may be provided from a public street indirectly via easement in any one or
more of the following circumstances: