For the purpose of this resolution, the county is hereby divided into the following types of districts;

R-AG—Agricultural Residential District

RR-1—Rural Residential District

R-1—Low Density Residential District

R-2—Medium Density Residential District

R-3—High Density Residential District

MH—Mobile Home Residential District

C-H—Highway Commercial District

C-1—Neighborhood Service Commercial District

C-2—General Commercial District

M-1—Wholesale and Light Industrial District

M-2—General Industrial District

PUD—Planned Unit Development District

AH—Airport Hazard Special District

FW—Floodway Special District

In order to protect the character of existing neighborhoods; to prevent excessive density of population in areas which are not adequately served with water, sewerage facilities, and fire protection; to ensure that adequate and suitable areas will be available in the county to provide housing for a growing population, and to protect residential areas from the blighting effects of the traffic, noise, odors, and dust generated by commercial and industrial activity; to provide for and accommodate growth and expansion of commercial and industrial activities; to prevent blight and slums and to promote orderly growth and development by grouping similar and related uses together and by separating dissimilar and unrelated uses; and in order that the various other purposes of this article may be accomplished, there are hereby established within the county the abovementioned mentioned zoning districts, identified as follows:

42.1. R-AG Agricultural residential district. This district is established to protect rural areas against the blight and depreciation which can result from premature development; to encourage the development of rural areas in a coordinated and orderly manner; to protect the use of land adjoining roads passing through the rural portions of the county against strip development which can lead to traffic congestion and traffic hazards; and for other purposes.

42.1a. RR-1 Rural residential district. This district is established to protect rural areas against the blight and depreciation which can result from premature development; to encourage the development of rural areas in a coordinated and orderly manner; to protect the use of land adjoining roads passing through the rural portions of the county against strip development which can lead to traffic congestion and traffic hazards; to have a slightly higher density than the R-AG district; and for other purposes.

42.2. R-1 Low density residential district. The intent of this district shall be to maintain dwelling unit density to not more than two dwelling units per net acre of residential land in order to protect the property in this district from the depreciating effects of more densely developed residential uses.

42.3. R-2 Medium density residential district. The intent of this district shall be to maintain dwelling unit density to not more than five dwelling units per net acre of residential land n order to protect the property in this district from the depreciating effect of more densely developed residential uses.

42.4. R-3 High density residential district. The intent of this district shall be to maintain dwelling unit density to not more than ten dwelling units per net acre of residential land in order to protect the property in this district from the depreciating effects of more densely developed residential uses.

42.5. MH Mobile home residential district. The intent of this district shall be to provide adequate locations and densities for mobile home parks, individual mobile homes, and other uses permitted by these regulations within this district.

42.6. C-H Highway commercial district. The intent of this district shall be to provide a commercial district designed to serve the automobile, its passengers, and highway users rather than individuals who use an automobile as a convenience to perform necessary daily and weekly personal needs. The district is intended to be restricted to state and federal highways which may also have other business districts located on them.

42.7. C-1 Neighborhood service commercial district. The intent of this district shall be to provide convenient shopping facilities consisting of convenience goods and personal services in neighborhood market areas of/from 1,000 to 4,000 people.

42.8. C-2 General commercial district. The intent of this district shall be to provide community shopping facilities consisting of a wide variety of sales and service facilities at locations that will be accessible to all shoppers of the county and to provide locations for uses not permitted in other commercial districts.

42.9. M-1 Wholesale and light industrial district. The intent of this district shall be to create and protect areas for those industrial uses which do not create excessive noise, odors, smoke, and dust and which do not possess other objectionable characteristics which might be detrimental to surrounding neighborhoods or to the other uses permitted in this district.

42.10. M-2 General industrial district. The purpose of this district shall be to create and protect areas in which industries which are not permitted in an M-1 district can be permitted.

42.11. PUD Planned unit development district. The purpose of planned unit development regulations is to offer developers the benefits of efficiency, economy, and flexibility by encouraging unified development of large sites while deriving for the county the advantages of improved appearance, compatibility of uses, optimum service by community facilities and better handling of vehicular access and circulation. Review of the development plan by the planning commission assures that such large-scale developments are consistent with the objectives of the county's comprehensive plan.

42.12 AH Airport hazard special district. This district is composed of lands and structures located within the flight approach areas or navigable airspace of any active airport. The regulations are intended to prevent the development of high residential densities of the concentration of large numbers of persons in those areas endangered by low flying aircraft in the process of landing or taking off and to protect flying aircraft by limiting the height of buildings and trees.

42.13 FW Floodway special district. The FW district is established to meet the needs of several watercourses to carry abnormal flows of water during times of flooding; to prevent encroachment into the district which will increase flood levels and flood damage; and to prevent loss of life and excessive damage to property in the area of the greatest flood hazard

Said districts are bounded as shown on the sectional atlas property maps contained in one volume entitled, "Official Zoning Map of the Unincorporated Area of Peach County, Georgia" and certified by the clerk hereinafter called "Official Zoning Map" or simply "map," and which, with all notations, references including dates of amendments, and other information shown thereon is hereby made a part of this resolution. Said map shall be made a public record and shall be kept permanently in the office of the zoning enforcement official, where said map shall be accessible to the general public.

If, in accordance with provisions of this resolution, changes are made in the district boundaries or other information portrayed on the official zoning map, changes shall be made on the map within seven days after the amendment has been approved by the county commission. A notation, certified by the county clerk, shall be entered on the map at the time any change is made, which shall include the date of the amendment and a numerical entry referring to the application on file with the county clerk which states a brief description of the nature of the changes. No amendment to this resolution which involves matter portrayed on the map shall become effective until after such change, with appropriate date and notation, has been made on said map.

Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of any of the aforesaid districts as shown on the official zoning map, the following rules shall apply:

45.1. Unless otherwise indicated, the district boundaries are indicated as approximately following property lines, land lot lines, centerlines of streets highways, alleys, or railroads, shorelines, streams, reservoirs or other bodies of water, or civil boundaries and they shall be construed to follow such lines.

45.2. Where district boundaries are approximately parallel to the centerlines of streets, highways, or railroads, or rights-of-way of the same, or the centerline of streams, reservoirs, or other bodies of water, or said lines extended, such district boundaries shall be construed as being parallel thereto and at such distance therefrom as indicated on the official zoning maps. If no distance is given, such dimensions shall be determined by the use of the scale shown on the official zoning maps.

45.3. Where a district boundary line, as appearing on the official zoning map, divides a lot which is in single ownership on January 9, 1973, the use classification of a larger portion may be extended to the remainder by the county commission at the request of the owner of said property without recourse to amendment procedure.

45.4. Where a public road, street, or alley is officially vacated or abandoned, the regulation applicable to the property to which it is reverted shall apply to such vacated or abandoned road, street or alley.

45.5. In case the exact location of a boundary cannot be determined by the foregoing methods, the county commission upon application shall determine the location of the boundary.

The purpose of this resolution and the accompanying map is to place all portions of the unincorporated area of Peach County in zoning districts. Should any area appear either by reference to the maps or by interpretation to be inadvertently or otherwise omitted from a classification district, that area or areas are hereby placed in an R-1 single-family [low density] residential district and shall be subject to all the regulations pertaining thereto until such time as the planning commission and the county commission can determine its proper zoning district classification.