Zoning Overlays & Bonuses in Georgia (2026)

Inside the North Point Overlay, the City of Alpharetta lets City Council grant a conditional-use density bonus above…

In unincorporated Cobb County, condominiums or townhomes built to replace demolished multifamily housing in the RM-8 or…

In Atlanta's BeltLine Overlay District, developers earn a 15% floor-area-ratio bonus above the zoned FAR by setting…

Unincorporated Barrow County lets an open space subdivision build more homes than the base zoning density allows if the…

In unincorporated Bartow County's RE-1 and RE-2 rural estate districts, a conservation subdivision developer earns a 20…

In the Buford Highway Overlay of the City of Brookhaven, Georgia, section 27-386 entitles developers as of right to one…

In unincorporated Bulloch County, a Planned Unit Development can earn up to a 15 percent bonus above the base density…

Unincorporated DeKalb County lets developers in the RSM Small Lot Residential Mix district double their base density by…

In Forsyth County's Mixed-Use Center District, base residential density tops out at six units per acre, but UDC §…

Residential developers who provide Fulton County's Inclusionary Housing Component can add 20 percent more units than…

In the MU-R Regional Mixed-Use District, unincorporated Gwinnett caps base development at 3.0 FAR and 75 feet, but…

Rockdale County grants a per-acre density bonus to developers within the Salem Road Corridor Overlay District who…

South Fulton awards density bonuses to Conservation Subdivisions that protect more open space than the code otherwise…

In unincorporated Spalding County, developers of conservation subdivisions can get more lots than the base yield plan…

In the RSM (Small Lot Residential Mix) district, Stonecrest Zoning Ordinance Sec. 2.12.5 allows density above the base…

Major subdivisions in unincorporated Troup County can earn a density bonus of up to 10% by scoring points under the…

Downtown Overlay buildings in the City of Alpharetta must follow architectural style rules in the Unified Development…

Atlanta's SPI-1 Downtown Special Public Interest District sets mandatory exterior design rules: window transparency…

Barrow County's Destination 211 Overlay imposes downtown-style streetscape and building design standards, not on…

Clayton County's MX Mixed Use District, Sec. 3.35 of the Zoning Ordinance, sets traditional downtown-style design…

Unincorporated Cobb County regulates redevelopment in old Downtown Mableton under County Code Section 134-286, a…

Columbus, Georgia requires a certificate of facade appropriateness from the Uptown Facade Board before any material…

In the St. Simons Village Design Review Overlay District, unincorporated Glynn County requires Islands Planning…

Unincorporated Gordon County, Georgia has no downtown district in its Unified Land Development Code, but the New Echota…

Exterior work visible from the street inside Macon's Central Business District needs sign-off before it can start…

Development within 750 feet of designated corridors in and around Downtown Marietta must clear the Commercial Corridor…

Roswell's UDC requires downtown and historic-district development to follow adopted Design Guidelines, with the Design…

In the City of Smyrna, Georgia, Appendix E makes the Urban Design Standards a mandatory land use control in the…

Unincorporated Forsyth County reviews rezonings to neighborhood shopping and urban village districts against a…

In the City of Stonecrest, new buildings and major renovations inside the Stonecrest Area Overlay District, the…

Walton County's Town Center District (TC) is the closest thing the unincorporated area has to a downtown design code…