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Gordon County Planning Development 215 North Wall Street 2nd Floor [PHONE REDACTED] Welcome To Gordon County Interested in Building/Developing in Gordon County? Nestled in the heart of Northwest Georgia, our county offers a perfect blend of natural beauty, rich history, and economic opportunity. If your interest is to develop or put down roots here, you’ll find our staff to be supportive with answering questions and helping in any way. Planning/Zoning For information concerning current zoning or the Unified Land Develop Codes, you may contact our office or go to the Gordon County MuniCode website. Building and Permitting For information concerning new buildings, remodeling of existing buildings, or new development you may contact our office or go to the Gordon County Municode and search codes. Feel free to contact Director Derron Brown @ [PHONE REDACTED] Fire Inspections If your project will require fire and life safety features, our Fire Inspectors will assist you with all the information you will need from initial plan review to final inspections. Please contact them @ [PHONE REDACTED] ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 Overview of our process Our goal is for your experience in Gordon County to be informative and pleasant. We have implemented the following process to help achieve this. For new developments or buildouts of existing commercial buildings, the following applies: We will schedule a pre-planning meeting including all necessary parties either in person or via web meeting. Please provide us with a preliminary site plan and drawing of the building including size, occupancy type, and a brief commodity description at this meeting. After the pre-planning meeting, you can then submit digital copies of Land Disturbance Plans and final building plans including site, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, life safety, and utilities by clicking the ePlan link on the Gordon County Building website. After the plan review process is approved, you can then apply for the appropriate permits which our staff will guide you through this process. A pre construction meeting will be scheduled after permitting and prior to construction to include contractor, inspectors, soil and erosion control Gordon County is currently enforcing the following codes per Georgia DCA all including Georgia Amendments: 2018 International Building Code 2023 National Electrical Code 2018 Mechanical Code 2018 Plumbing Code 2018 Fuel Gas Code 2012 ADA 2018 Life Safety Code 2015 Energy Code Current Storm Water and Erosion Control as adopted