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Zoning

Mollie Powell
Zoning Administrator
413 W Jackson St
P.O. Box 1540
Thomasville, GA
(229) 227-3306

The Zoning Administrator is responsible for ensuring that all development within the City of Thomasville meets the City of Thomasville Municipal Code. Some of these regulations include the use of property and development standards, parking requirements, signage, and landscaping. The Zoning Admnistrator also provides support to several citizen committees and commissions and boards, including ARZA Board, Historic Preservation Commission, Planning & Zoning Commission, and Tree and Landscape Committee.

If you are planning to subdivide a parcel, buy a property, build something new, open a new business, install a sign, add a fence, or remove a tree, it is important that you contact the Zoning Administrator in order to make sure that your project is in compliance with the codes reviewed by zoning.

What is Zoning?

  • The division of land within the City into separate districts within which uses are permitted, prohibited or permitted with conditions. Zoning Districts are established to promote compatible patterns of land use within the city. Zoning districts establish site development standards in order to maintain a consistent and compatible development pattern specific to each area. Within the City of Thomasville, there are sixteen separate zoning districts. Each district has a unique series of permitted uses. These uses are described in Chapter 22 of the City of Thomasville Municipal Code.

  • A tool used by the City to implement its Comprehensive Plan

  • A method to keep the land use equation consistent

Maps

Codes

The City of Thomasville's Municipal Code that is regulated by zoning:

  • Chapter 5 Article XVI, Sign Regulations
  • Chapter 17 Subdivisions
  • Chapter 20 Trees and Landscaping
  • Chapter 22 Zoning
  • Chapter 22.5 Overlay Districts

Citizen Boards

  • Architectural Review & Zoning Appeals Board
  • Historic Preservation Commission
  • Planning and Zoning Commission
  • Tree and Landscape Committee

For more information about these Boards, please click here.

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