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Published by Order of the Board of Commissioners

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Effective January 1, 2009

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OFFICIALS

of

GORDON COUNTY, GEORGIA

AT THE TIME OF THIS PUBLICATION

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Roy L. Davis

Chairman

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Alvin Long

G. Wayne Parker

G.W. Townsend

Leonard Burroughs

Commissioners

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Randall Dowling

County Administrator

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Suzanne Hutchinson

County Attorney

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Annette Berry

County Clerk

PREFACE

This Code constitutes codification of the Unified Land Development Code of Gordon County, Georgia.

Source materials used in the preparation of the Unified Land Development Code were the Unified Land Development Ordinance, adopted December 2, 2008, as amended through May 19, 2009.

Page Numbering System

The page numbering system used in this publication is a prefix system. The letters to the left of the colon are an abbreviation which represents the Unified Land Development Code followed by the chapter designation. The number to the right of the colon represents the sequence of the page within that chapter; thus, page 3 of chapter 1 of the Unified Land Development Code would appear as LDC1:3. The following abbreviations are used in this volume:

Index

The index has been prepared with the greatest of care. Each particular item has been placed under several headings, some of which are couched in lay phraseology, others in legal terminology, and still others in language generally used by local government officials and employees. There are numerous cross references within the index which stand as guideposts to direct the user to the particular item in which the user is interested.

Looseleaf Supplements

A special feature of this publication is the looseleaf system of binding and supplemental servicing of the publication. With this system, the publication will be kept up-to-date. Subsequent amendatory legislation will be properly edited, and the appropriate page or pages affected will be reprinted. These new pages will be distributed to holders of copies of the publication, with instructions for the manner of inserting the new pages and deleting the obsolete pages.

Keeping this publication up-to-date at all times will depend largely upon the holder of the publication. As revised sheets are received, it will then become the responsibility of the holder to have the amendments inserted according to the attached instructions. It is strongly recommended by the publisher that all such amendments be inserted immediately upon receipt to avoid misplacing them and, in addition, that all deleted pages be saved and filed for historical reference purposes.

Acknowledgments

This publication was under the direct supervision of Eric Grant, Vice President, and Bonnie Mitchell, Supplement Editor, of the Municipal Code Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida. Credit is gratefully given to the other members of the publisher's staff for their sincere interest and able assistance throughout the project.

The publisher is most grateful to Annette Frady Berry, County Clerk, for her cooperation and assistance during the progress of the work on this publication. It is hoped that her efforts and those of the publisher have resulted in a publication of the County's Unified Land Development Code which will make the active law of the county readily accessible to all citizens and which will be a valuable tool in the day-to-day administration of the county's affairs.

Copyright

All editorial enhancements of this Code are copyrighted by Municipal Code Corporation and Gordon County, Georgia. Editorial enhancements include, but are not limited to: organization; table of contents; section catchlines; prechapter section analyses; editor's notes; numbering system; code comparative table; and index. Such material may not be used or reproduced for commercial purposes without the express written consent of Municipal Code Corporation and Gordon County, Georgia.

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