City of Peachtree City, Georgia - Building Department

City of Peachtree City, Georgia

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Peachtree City, GA

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Applications go through the City's online permit portal; homeowners do not need an account to apply, but the City's own Building Permits page states plainly that "Contractors must" create one. Work "must not begin until after the permit has been approved, paid, and picked up," and starting work early draws "a Stop Work Order and double fees." Review times run "usually 3-5 business days for residential permits and 10-14 business days for commercial permits." A residential application generally needs construction plans, a site plan showing distances from property lines and easements, and - for a property within 200 feet of state waters or disturbing more than an acre - an erosion control plan; new homes and commercial alterations also need approval letters from the Fayette County Water Authority and the Peachtree City Sewer Authority, and lots on septic systems need a construction-approval form from the Fayette County Health Department. The City's guidance is explicit that permit files go only through the online portal: "DO NOT EMAIL ANY PERMIT APPLICATIONS OR FILES." Code of Ordinances Section 18-111(a)(5) deems an application abandoned six months after filing if no permit has issued, with 90-day extensions available in writing for justifiable cause, and Section 18-111(f)(1) makes an issued permit invalid if work is not started, or is suspended, for six months, with the same extension mechanism. Contact the Building Department at 770-487-8901, 153 Willowbend Road, Peachtree City, GA 30269.

STATE-SET, LOCALLY ENFORCED, WITH ONE LOCAL ROOFING AMENDMENT. Georgia's Department of Community Affairs lists the International Residential Code, 2024 Edition, with Georgia Amendments 2026 among the current mandatory state minimum codes, effective January 1, 2026, and under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) that code binds any structure built in Georgia whether or not the local government elects to enforce it locally - compliance is statewide and automatic, and what varies locally is enforcement. Peachtree City does enforce it: Code of Ordinances Section 18-1(a) declares the purpose of Chapter 18 to be administration and enforcement of "the Georgia State Minimum Standard Codes for Construction as adopted and amended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs," and Section 18-100(a) applies "the provisions of the International Residential Code, the latest edition as adopted and amended by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs," to new one- and two-family dwellings and to "additions, alterations, renovations and general repairs" of existing ones. That is a FLOATING adoption, so the City moved to the 2024 edition on January 1, 2026 without passing an ordinance of its own; the adopting sections date from Ordinance No. 1015 (January 6, 2011), with the residential-code section separately amended by Ordinance No. 1095 (May 21, 2015). The Code of Ordinances is codified through Ordinance No. 1258, enacted May 21, 2026 (Supplement No. 57, Update 1). Chapter 18 was read in full - all fifteen articles and all 85 of its numbered sections and reserved ranges - and it carries exactly one amendment reaching the residential code's roofing chapter: Section 18-100(f)(1), "Chapter 9 of the International Residential Code, Roof Assemblies, all wood shingles and shakes, is removed as an approved roof covering." That amendment bars a material, not a layer count, a drip-edge detail or an ice-barrier requirement, and it leaves the base Code's reroofing section (R908) and eaves-flashing sections untouched. APPENDIX U IS NOT ADOPTED. The Department of Community Affairs' 2024 IRC amendment packet adopts Appendix U, "Disaster Resilient Construction," as optional, effective January 1, 2026, meaning a local government must adopt it for itself; Chapter 18, read in full, names only two appendices anywhere - Appendix E of the plumbing code and Appendix G of the residential code, for pool fencing - and never mentions Appendix U or "Disaster Resilient." So the enhanced deck-sealing and prescriptive shingle-fastening rules in that appendix do not apply in Peachtree City.

Required — STATE-GOVERNED, and it applies in Peachtree City exactly as it applies everywhere else in Georgia the base International Residential Code has not been locally amended. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet for the 2024 Residential Code was read in full and carries no amendment to Chapter 9's drip-edge provision - zero occurrences of "R905" and zero of "drip" in the whole 107,763-character packet. Code of Ordinances Chapter 18 was likewise read in full, all fifteen articles, and its only residential-code amendment removes wood shingles and shakes as an approved roof covering; it does not touch drip edge. So the Chapter 9 drip-edge provision at Section R905.2.8.5 stands as written for Georgia and for Peachtree City: read directly (not left behind the ICC paywall), "A drip edge shall be provided at eaves and rake edges of shingle roofs," with lap, extension and fastening specifics set in the same section. Peachtree City has not adopted Appendix U, Disaster Resilient Construction, which the Department of Community Affairs makes optional, so its enhanced deck-sealing and fastening rules do not add to this requirement here. One practical note: the City's own Building Permits page puts an ordinary re-roof in the permit-required column, so this requirement is inspected rather than merely on the books for most Peachtree City reroofs. About drip edge

Not required — No mid-roof, dry-in or in-progress roofing inspection stage is named anywhere in the Code of Ordinances. Section 18-113(f)(1) lists the required building inspections in full and there are five: foundation and foundation wall, slab, frame, moisture barrier, and final. None of the five is a roofing-specific stage - the frame inspection is made "after the roof, all framing, fire blocking, bracing and fasteners are in place," which uses roof completion as a trigger for the framing inspection rather than inspecting the roof covering itself. The building official may call for "such other inspections as necessary," so a City inspector could in practice ask to see roofing work before it is covered, but that is discretionary rather than a listed requirement. Confirm the inspection sequence attached to the specific permit before covering work up.

Not required — No impact-resistant or hail-rated roof covering is required in Peachtree City. Neither the Georgia Department of Community Affairs' 2024 IRC amendment packet nor Code of Ordinances Chapter 18 contains any UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 impact requirement; the Georgia packet's only reroofing-adjacent local content sits inside the optional Appendix U, which Peachtree City has not adopted, and that appendix's own roofing content concerns deck sealing and shingle fastening rather than impact rating in any event. Chapter 18's one residential-code amendment removes wood shingles and shakes as an approved covering and says nothing about impact resistance. An insurer may still offer a premium credit for an impact-rated shingle in this hail-exposed part of Georgia, but that is an insurance matter, not a code requirement here.

CITY-SPECIFIC, and it works differently for a re-roof than for a general minor repair. The City's Building Permits page lists "siding, re-roof" among the work for which building permits are issued and states no dollar exemption for roofing itself - re-roofing is a permit-required category outright in Peachtree City, unlike some neighbouring Georgia cities that exempt a straightforward roof replacement. The Code of Ordinances carries a SEPARATE general exemption that could still bear on a small roof repair: Section 18-111(a)(3) provides that "Ordinary minor repairs, with a value of less than $5,000.00, may be made with the approval of the building official without a permit, provided that such repairs shall not violate any of the provisions of the construction codes," and adds that "Other exempted projects include window and door replacements where no structural alteration occurs." That $5,000 allowance is not automatic - it requires the building official's approval - and it does not relax the construction code itself: work performed under it must still meet the adopted code even though no permit is pulled. PRACTICAL EFFECT: a full re-roof falls under the City's own re-roof permit line and should be expected to need a permit; a small qualifying repair may be eligible for the sub-$5,000 minor-repair allowance at the building official's discretion, but that is the official's call to make, not the applicant's to assume.

Peachtree City publishes no wind design criteria of its own, and neither does Georgia for one- and two-family dwellings outside the optional Appendix U. Code of Ordinances Chapter 18 was read in full and states no design wind speed, exposure category or wind-borne debris region, and the City publishes no filled-in copy of the residential code's climatic and geographic criteria table. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet carries only one wind-speed figure in its mandatory chapters, and it is not a design value: a new exception 3 to Section R403.1.6, Foundation anchorage, that applies "Where the basic wind speed in accordance with Figure R301.2(4)A does not exceed 115 miles per hour (51 m/s), the seismic design category is A or B" and a particular braced-wall method is used. Every other wind figure in the Georgia packet sits inside the optional Appendix U, whose wind-speed options (100, 110, 120 or 130 mph) apply only where a jurisdiction has adopted that appendix, and Peachtree City has not. The governing figure is therefore the base Code's own wind map value read for the site. Ask the Building Department at 770-487-8901 for the wind speed and exposure category before designing fastening or uplift to a number.

Set by the base state code, not by a Peachtree City layer rule. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments 2026, and the Georgia amendment packet touches no part of the reroofing section - it was read in full (107,763 characters) and carries zero occurrences of any R9-hundred section number and zero of "Chapter 9," so the base Code's Chapter 9 provisions apply as published except where the City's own ordinance says otherwise. On the local side, Code of Ordinances Chapter 18 was read in full across all fifteen articles, and its only amendment reaching the residential roofing chapter is Section 18-100(f)(1), which removes wood shingles and shakes as an approved roof covering - a material bar, not a layer count, and it does not touch, delete or except the reroofing section. So the layer question is answered by the base 2024 International Residential Code, Section R908.4, Roof Recover, read directly (not left behind the ICC paywall): a roof recover "shall not be permitted where any of the following conditions occur," including "Where the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering." One existing layer of roof covering may be recovered; two or more existing layers require a tear-off to the deck. Peachtree City has not adopted Appendix U, Disaster Resilient Construction, so nothing in that appendix bears on the layer question either.

Set by the base state code, not by Peachtree City. The Georgia amendment packet to the 2024 International Residential Code makes no change to Chapter 9's deck-covering provisions; its only amendment near the roof structure is a new Section R807.1.1, requiring attics that contain appliances or mechanical equipment needing service to be reachable by pull-down stairs or other permanent steps - an attic-access rule, not a sheathing specification. Code of Ordinances Chapter 18 was read in full and writes no roof-deck or sheathing provision of its own; its one residential-code amendment removes wood shingles and shakes as an approved covering and does not touch the deck beneath it. So the base International Residential Code provisions on the deck beneath a roof covering apply unmodified in Peachtree City. Peachtree City has not adopted Appendix U, Disaster Resilient Construction, which carries the enhanced deck-sealing provisions the Department of Community Affairs makes optional, so those additional deck-sealing rules do not apply here. What does change locally is the permit position: the City's Building Permits page lists re-roofing as work requiring a permit outright, so opening the deck on a Peachtree City reroof happens under a permit either way.

7% in Peachtree City. The Georgia Department of Revenue's general rate chart effective July 1 through September 30, 2026 lists jurisdiction code 056 "Fayette" at a 7% combined rate, made up of the 4% Georgia state rate plus the local components the chart marks L (LOST, Local Option Sales Tax) and S (SPLOST, Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) and E (Educational). Fayette County carries no city-specific split on the chart the way Fulton County does, so 7% applies county-wide, Peachtree City included. The Department of Revenue has already published the chart taking effect October 1, 2026, and Fayette's rate and components are unchanged in it, so 7% holds through that reissue. For the roofer, Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 560-12-2-.26(1) makes anyone who contracts to furnish materials and perform services improving real property "the consumer of all tangible personal property used or consumed in performing such contract" and who "shall pay the tax thereon at the time of purchase, use, storage or consumption in this State" - so the tax on the shingles is the contractor's own cost, paid at the supplier, not a line item charged to the homeowner as a resale item. The same rule requires every contractor improving real property in Georgia to file for a Certificate of Registration on Form CRF-002 before its first construction activity in the state, which is a tax registration and not a contractor credential.