City of Peachtree Corners, Georgia - Building and Permitting Division

City of Peachtree Corners, Georgia

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Peachtree Corners, GA

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Peachtree Corners runs permitting through BS&A, which it adopted on September 22, 2025 in place of its previous system. The Building Division "reviews building plans and inspects all residential and commercial structures built or remodeled within the City" and issues building permits for residential and non-residential work, deck, pool and spa, demolition, interior finish, remodelling and additions, retaining wall, roof, trade permits and any additional permits required. Building permits are accepted Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and construction activity is allowed on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Plans may be submitted electronically through BS&A. FEES for a single-family residence are on the City's own short schedule: new complete building construction is calculated from the International Code Council Building Valuation Data at $4 per $1,000 of estimated construction cost; renovation, alteration and remodel permits are $150 up to $25,000 of construction cost, $250 from $25,001 to $75,000 and $500 over $75,001; trade permits for mechanical, electrical and plumbing are $250; and "Reroof/Siding" is $250. INSPECTIONS are requested on the City's Building Inspection Request Form or by calling the Building Inspection Request Line on 770-609-8813, and for a next-day inspection the request must be in before 3 p.m. FIRE INSPECTIONS ARE NOT THE CITY'S: the Building and Permitting page states that "All fire inspection requests should be made through Gwinnett County", and the Permitting Process page routes fire and health plan review to Gwinnett County as well. Property inside the Chattahoochee River Corridor attracts additional requirements before a permit issues; the Land Development Manager is on 470-395-7022. The Chief Building Official is Will Wiggins on 470-395-7036; the plans coordinator is Elaine Cribbs on 470-550-1729 and the plans examiner John Kroening on 678-691-1207. City Hall is at 310 Technology Parkway, Peachtree Corners, Georgia, main line 678-691-1200.

STATE-SET AND LOCALLY ENFORCED, ON A FLOATING ADOPTION, AND THE CITY PUBLISHES THE CURRENT LIST ITSELF. Georgia has no local code adoption to look up. The International Residential Code, 2024 Edition, with Georgia Amendments 2026 is a mandatory state minimum standard code adopted by the Department of Community Affairs and effective January 1, 2026, and under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) it binds any structure built in Georgia whether or not the local government chooses to enforce it locally. Compliance is therefore statewide and automatic; what is local is enforcement, and Peachtree Corners enforces. Its adoption floats by its own terms. Code section 10-23(a) provides that "the city construction code shall be comprised of the following documents, including the administration and appendix chapters also contained in those documents, which are hereby adopted by reference and incorporated into this Code, as though they were copied fully in this article. It is the intention of the city to enforce the latest edition of the state minimum standard codes listed below, as adopted and amended by the state department of community affairs", and lists eleven, the second being the International Residential Code. Subsection (b) settles any doubt: "If any of the publications listed in subsection (a) of this section are adopted as a state minimum code pursuant to O.C.G.A. section 8-2-20 et seq., then the edition adopted by the state shall control. If any of the publications listed in subsection (a) of this section are less stringent than the state minimum codes ... then the state minimum code shall control." The City's Building and Permitting page states the position in terms: "Effective January 1, 2026, the 2024 IBC, IRC, IMC, IFGC, IPC, ISPSC and 2023 NEC shall be applicable to all plans and applications submitted. Failure to submit applications with these code references will result in an incomplete application. Incomplete applications will be rejected." Its Permitting Process page reproduces the current mandatory list, including "ICC International Residential Code (IRC), 2024 Edition, with IRC Georgia Amendments (2026)", and notes the energy code is still the 2015 IECC. APPENDIX U WAS NOT ESTABLISHED EITHER WAY. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction is adopted by the Department of Community Affairs as optional and by its own scope clause binds only where an adopting ordinance specifically references it. Chapter 10 of the City Code was read in full and never names Appendix U or the Disaster Resilient appendix; what it has is the general phrase in section 10-23(a) adopting the listed documents "including the administration and appendix chapters also contained in those documents". Whether a general phrase of that kind reaches an appendix the State adopts as optional is not settled here. The City's Permitting Process page does list "Disaster Resilient Building Code IRC Appendix (2013)", but under the heading "Current Permissive Codes as Adopted by DCA", which is the State's menu of what a local government may adopt rather than a record of this City adopting it. Ask the Chief Building Official. CURRENCY: the Code is codified through Ordinance No. 2026-03-330, enacted April 28, 2026, and section 10-23 carries the history "Ord. of 7-1-2012, section 14-26; Ord. No. 2021-06-205, section 1, 7-27-2021".

Required — REQUIRED, AND PEACHTREE CORNERS IS ONE OF THE FEW GEORGIA JURISDICTIONS THAT SAYS SO IN ITS OWN WORDS. The City's "Residential Re-roofing" building guide asks "Is drip edge required?" and answers "Yes, drip edge shall be provided at eaves and gables of shingle roofs, overlapped a min. of 2", extending a min. of 1/4" below roof sheathing and up the roof deck a min. of 2"." That is the City's own publication, carrying the City's logo, and it is quoted as printed; it is undated, so confirm it with the Building Division on a job where the detail matters. THE SAME ANSWER COMES OUT OF THE STATE CODE, INDEPENDENTLY. The International Residential Code is one of the codes Georgia designates as a mandatory state minimum standard, so under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) it binds construction in Peachtree Corners whether or not the City elects to enforce it locally. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs amendment packet for the 2024 IRC carries no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the Chapter 9 drip-edge provision at Section R905.2.8.5 stands as written, neither deleted nor rewritten for Georgia. The City's own building instrument was opened in full for this entry: Chapter 10 of the Code of the City of Peachtree Corners, Buildings and Building Regulations, all nine articles, of which not one amends the roofing chapter or mentions drip edge, shingles, underlayment or roof-covering fastening; section 10-23 adopts the state codes and adds no technical amendment. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction has not been shown to be adopted here and in any event could not remove the drip-edge requirement. The operative ICC text of R905.2.8.5, which sets the extent, lap and fastening specifics, sits behind the ICC paywall; this record does not restate it and does not rely on any third-party republication of it - what is quoted above is the City's own statement, and what is otherwise recorded is the sourced fact that the requirement is in force here unamended. ONE PRACTICAL POINT THAT MATTERS HERE MORE THAN IN MOST GEORGIA CITIES: the City's permit table says a residential re-roof needs no building permit, so in many cases nobody will come and look. That removes the inspection, not the requirement - O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) binds the work either way. About drip edge

Not required — No impact-resistant or hail-rated roof covering is required in Peachtree Corners. Neither the Georgia State Amendments packet to the 2024 International Residential Code nor Chapter 10 of the Peachtree Corners Code of Ordinances contains any UL 2218, Class 4, Class IV or FM 4473 impact requirement. The Georgia packet does not amend the Code's roofing chapter at all, and Chapter 10, read in full across all nine articles, adopts the state codes without adding a technical amendment of any kind. The City's own Residential Re-roofing guide runs through sheathing preparation, underlayment, fasteners, layers, drip edge, roof jacks and vents, and the requirements for shakes and wood shingles, three-tab and laminate shingles, interlocking, and tile, metal and special roofs, and asks nothing about impact rating or hail class. Appendix U Disaster Resilient Construction has not been shown to be adopted here, and its roofing content is about secondary water barriers and fastening rather than impact in any event. An insurer may still offer a premium credit for an impact-rated shingle in the north-metro hail belt, but that is an insurance matter and not a code requirement here.

🔴 THE CITY PUBLISHES TWO ANSWERS TO "DOES A RESIDENTIAL RE-ROOF NEED A PERMIT" AND THEY DO NOT AGREE. BOTH ARE SET OUT HERE, NEITHER IS CHOSEN, AND YOU SHOULD RING THE BUILDING DIVISION BEFORE YOU QUOTE. FIRST DOCUMENT - the City's "When Do I Need A Building Permit?" page, which introduces a two-column table with "The following table shows work that requires a building permit. It is not a comprehensive list." Three of its rows are about roofs, and each was read out of the table's own cells rather than off the page text: "Minor repairs to roof covering - No"; "Re-roof Residential - No"; "Re-roof Non-residential (PDF) - Yes". On that page a residential re-roof needs no building permit and a commercial one does. Neighbouring rows show where the City does draw lines: accessory structures over 200 square feet need a permit and 200 square feet or less do not; door and window replacement without structural alterations does not, with structural alterations does; new exterior siding, brick, masonry or stucco does, while minor repairs to siding, brick masonry or stucco do not; retaining walls taller than 48 inches do and 48 inches or less do not. SECOND DOCUMENT - the City's own "Residential Re-roofing" homeowner building guide, which carries the City's logo and answers its own first question "Why do I need a permit to re-roof my house?" with "Your permit allows the building department to inspect for potential hazards and unsafe construction ... Besides, it's the law", tells the owner they may do the work themselves, and answers "Will my roof be inspected?" with "Yes, the permit holder must call for a Sheathing inspection and a Final Roof inspection." That guide is undated. WHAT IS NOT IN DOUBT. The Building and Permitting page lists "roof" among the permits the Building staff issues, so the City does issue roofing permits; the Single Family Residential Building Permit Fee Schedule carries a "Reroof/Siding" line at $250; and Chapter 10 of the City Code, read in full across all nine articles, contains no permit-exemption schedule and no monetary repair threshold of its own, leaving the question to the adopted state code and to these two City publications. AND ONE THING THAT DOES NOT CHANGE EITHER WAY: under O.C.G.A. 8-2-25(a) the state minimum codes bind the work whether or not the City inspects it, so a permit exemption removes the inspection, not the requirement.

THE CITY'S OWN HOMEOWNER GUIDE SAYS TWO LAYERS, AND THAT IS THE ANSWER TO PLAN AROUND - BUT IT IS NOT PUBLISHED AS AN ORDINANCE. The City's "Residential Re-roofing" building guide asks "How many layers of roofing are allowed?" and answers, in full, "Two layers." The guide carries the City's logo and is published by the Building and Permitting division on its forms page; it is undated. THAT FIGURE IS ON AN ADVISORY LEAFLET RATHER THAN IN THE CODE, and this record does not turn it into a legal classification for that reason. The legal position underneath it is the state code. The residential code in force is the 2024 International Residential Code with the Georgia Amendments 2026, the Georgia amendment packet makes no change to the Code's roofing chapter, so the base International Residential Code reroofing and roof-recover provisions apply as published and Georgia adds no layer cap of its own. On the local side, Chapter 10 of the Peachtree Corners Code, Buildings and Building Regulations, was read in full - all nine articles, section by section - and no provision in it addresses roof coverings or the number of layers. Section 10-23 adopts the state codes and adds no technical amendment at all. Confirm the layer question with the Building Division before ordering, and note the currency question the guide's lack of a date raises.

THE CITY PUBLISHES A DECK PREPARATION STANDARD FOR TEAR-OFFS, AND A SEPARATE MAINTENANCE RULE THAT REACHES THE SHEATHING. The City's "Residential Re-roofing" building guide sets out, under "Roof Sheathing Preparation (for complete tear offs)", that "The roof sheathing must provide a rigid surface" and "Repair or replace all boards or sheathing which are warped, cracked or delaminated between supports." The same guide, under "Fasteners (for all roofs)", states that "Fasters must be long enough to penetrate through the total thickness of the roofing and a minimum of 3/4" into the decking material", that for open soffits the contractor should contact the building department, and that "Nails must not be over or under driven, the head must be flush with the shingle surface". The guide is quoted here as the City's own publication; it is undated, and the words are reproduced as printed, including its "Fasters" typo. SEPARATELY, the City's property maintenance code reaches the same materials once the roof is in service: Code section 10-368 provides that "Roofs of buildings shall be maintained so that they are structurally sound and in a safe condition and have no defects which might admit rain or cause dampness in the interior portions of a building. All portions, additions or sections of a roof, including, but not limited to, the fascia, eave, soffit, sheathing, rafter tail, barge rafter, vent screening, gutter, downspout, roof jack, and metal flashing, shall be complete with all trim strips, moldings, brackets, braces and supports attached or fastened in accordance with common building practices." BEYOND THAT the deck is set by the state code: the Georgia amendment packet to the 2024 International Residential Code makes no change to the Code's roofing chapter, so the base International Residential Code provisions on the deck beneath a roof covering apply as published, and Chapter 10, read in full, prescribes no roof-deck material, thickness or fastening for new work.

6% in Peachtree Corners, and it is one of the two lowest combined rates in Georgia. The Georgia Department of Revenue rate chart in force for July 1 through September 30, 2026 lists jurisdiction code 067 "Gwinnett" at 6%, combining the 4% Georgia state rate with only two local components, which the chart marks Educational and SPLOST - there is no LOST here, which is why the figure is a full point or two below most of metro Atlanta. Peachtree Corners lies wholly within Gwinnett County and the chart gives Gwinnett no city-level split, so 6% is the figure everywhere in the city. The chart states the state component in its own first line: "Code 000 - The state sales and use tax rate is 4%. Other than 803 Fulton (Cent. Yards), state tax is included in the jurisdiction rates below." The Department of Revenue has already published the chart taking effect on October 1, 2026 and the Gwinnett row is unchanged in it at 6%. FOR THE ROOFER, WHO PAYS IT: 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, whichever occurs first" - so the tax on the shingles is the contractor's, paid at the supplier, and not a line the homeowner is charged 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.