Dunwoody, GA Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

, plus any city regulations and permit conditions. Section 16-60(a) makes the permit itself mandatory: no person may conduct land-disturbing activity in the city without first obtaining a land-disturbance permit from the community development director, and a copy of the state notice of intent must be provided where applicable. Applications go first to the soil and water conservation district, which must approve or disapprove the erosion, sedimentation and pollution control plan within 35 days under section 16-60(c)(4); failure to act within that window counts as approval.

§ 12-5-23(a)(5). 00 per acre under section 16-60(c)(6) to guarantee compliance. Section 16-58 exempts minor activities such as home gardening, agricultural operations, and single-family construction disturbing less than one acre outside a larger common plan of development, though the buffer and minimum standards of section 16-59 still apply to those exempt homes. Section 16-59(c)(15) establishes a 25-foot buffer along state waters, expanding to 50 feet along designated trout streams under subsection (c)(16), inside which land-disturbing activity is generally prohibited while the site remains under construction.