Fayette County, GA Environmental Rules: Stormwater Management (2026)

Article XIV of the Development Code (§§ 104-557 through 104-564) sets post-construction stormwater standards for the unincorporated county. A project triggers the article if it creates 5,000 or more square feet of new impervious cover, disturbs one acre or more, is part of a common plan of development that cumulatively hits those thresholds, is a commercial or industrial 'hotspot' land use (gas stations, vehicle service areas, industrial facilities, high-intensity parking lots) regardless of size, or is a linear transportation project exceeding the size triggers. Applicants must submit a stormwater management plan stamped by a professional engineer, an operations and maintenance plan, and a recorded inspection and maintenance agreement to the Environmental Management Department before a land-disturbance permit issues.

2-inch storm. Systems not dedicated to the county, including HOA-owned ponds and BMPs, remain the private owner's or homeowners' association's maintenance responsibility, backed by a recorded covenant and, where the county performs the work itself, an annual stormwater assessment area billing. 4, though the department can waive that exemption if downstream properties would be harmed. The ordinance derives from Ord. No. 2020-09, adopted December 10, 2020, which repealed and replaced the former Article XIV.