Dunwoody, GA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Section 26-8 of Dunwoody's streets and sidewalks chapter, added by ordinance in September 2021, sets two obstruction rules. Subsection (a) bars any person from placing or causing to be placed in a street and/or sidewalk debris, rubbish, irrigation water, boxes, displays, signs, poles, goods, merchandise, plant materials, or any other object in a way that impedes or endangers traffic on streets or sidewalks. That reaches everyday encroachments like a sandwich board left across a walkway, merchandise displays spilling into a pedestrian path, or landscaping debris left where it blocks a curb lane.

Subsection (b) separately bars a person or company from constructing or maintaining a gravel, pebble or stone drive, yard or lot in a way that causes vehicles to throw loose stones, pebbles or gravel onto the adjacent street or sidewalk, targeting a specific drainage-and-debris problem tied to unpaved driveways. The section works alongside section 26-7's ban on defacing sidewalks, streets or curbs by painting numbers, symbols or advertising on them, and section 26-6's permit requirement for poles, pipes and signs placed in the right-of-way, together covering both temporary obstructions and permanent installations in the public way.

All of these rules are enforced under the Code's general penalty section 1-6, since chapter 26 does not set out its own separate fine schedule for obstruction violations.