Floyd County, GA Environmental Rules: Boat Dock Permits (2026)

The Unified Land Development Code's Table 3-2, covering Floyd County's nonresidential zoning districts, lists "Boat Docks, Marina, and Waterfront Recreation" among the permitted principal uses. The table marks the use with a bullet, meaning it is allowed by right, in the C-C Community Commercial, UMU Urban Mixed Use, and C-B-C Central Business Commercial columns; it carries no bullet, symbol, or special-use marker in the N-O-C, O-I, H-C, L-I or H-I columns, meaning it is not a listed use there, and it has no district entry at all in Table 3-1's residential and agricultural table.

Unlike many of the code's other waterfront-adjacent uses, this entry carries no "See Also" cross-reference to a dedicated dimensional or siting-standards article, so no distance, height, or slip-count limit for a commercial dock or marina appears elsewhere in the ULDC's Article 4 restrictions. A dock, marina, or waterfront recreation project sited within the floodplain along the county's rivers still has to clear the county's separate flood-damage-prevention permitting under Code of Ordinances Chapter 2-6, Article III, and any land-disturbing work needs a development permit under ULDC Article 7 before construction begins.

Because the use table confines the classification to three commercial and mixed-use districts, a private residential dock is not covered by this principal-use entry at all.