Planning & Development - Pre-Requisites for
Land Disturbance Permits
Please refer to the Duluth Development Regulations for details. This listing is intended to be a summary of requirements to obtain a land disturbance permit within the City of Duluth.
For Clearing Permit:
- Plan showing limits of clearing approval
- Tree Protection Plan approval
- Single Family lots are exempt
- Allows trees to be cut from the ground up
- Pre-construction conference with staff
For Clearing & Grubbing Permit:
- Concept Plan approval (rezoning exhibit may serve as this)
- Tree Protection Plan approval
- Single Family lots are exempt
- Allows trees to be cut and stumps to be removed
- Erosion bond of $3,000 per acre
- Pre-construction conference with staff
For Grading Permit (including clearing & grubbing):
- Grading plan approval
- Erosion Control Plan approval
- Hydrology Report approval
- Tree Protection Plan approval
- Single Family lots are exempt
- Allows trees and stumps to be removed and moving of dirt on site
- Erosion bond of $3,000 per acre
- Pre-construction conference with staff
The aforementioned permits do not allow any paving, pipe work, demolition or activities other than cutting of trees, stumps and the like.
For Development Permit:
- MRPA Certificate (if located within 2,000 feet of the Chattahoochee River)
- Grading Plan approval
- Erosion Control Plan approval
- Landscape Plan approval
- Tree Protection Plan approval
- Hydrology Report approval
- Site Plan approval
- Route Sheet signed off by all required agencies and departments
- All City and County taxes paid in full
- Erosion bond of $3,000 per acre
- Copy of Notice of Intent filed with Georgia EPD for the City's file; to file electronically with EPD, click here.
- BMP Tracking form and grading plan
- BMP Maintenance Agreement
- All fees paid
- Pre-construction conference with staff
The owner must sign the permit application, the engineer or other agent
cannot sign on the owner's behalf. The person who signs the application is the
person that the City will hold responsible for maintaining compliance on the
site. The Planning Director will not sign the plans authorizing issuance of the
LDP until a pre-construction conference with staff has taken place.
For any site where a Notice of Intent (NOI) is required to be filed with the
State of Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection
Division, an additional fee is required. A fee of $40/disturbed acre is required
to be paid to the City of Duluth. A fee of $40/disturbed acre is required to be
paid by separate check to the Georgia EPD. Please go to
www.dnr.state.ga.us/dnr/environ under EPD Forms, Water Protection Branch, Storm
Water for more information or you may call Ms. Jan Sammons at 404-675-6240.