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The Rockdale County Board of Adjustment conducts public hearings, requests and receives studies and reports from staff, and makes decisions on the following matters brought before them:

• Appeals:
  • Application;
  • An appeal to the Board of Adjustment can be initiated by any aggrieved person, or by the department, official, agency or board of the Rockdale County affected by any decision, final order, requirement, determination, or interpretation of any administrative official of Rockdale County with respect to the provisions of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO).
• Variances:
  • Flood Damage Protection;
  • Stream Buffers;
  • Other Variances;
  • Board of Adjustment Variance Application and Instructions;
  • A variance refers to a special permission granted to allow relief from one or more zoning or development regulations when the strict application of the particular regulation would impose on a property owner an exceptional and undue hardship. An example of a variance request might be to reduce a required minimum yard due to an odd configuration of a property.
• Administrative Variances:
  • Some types of variance requests may be reviewed and granted or denied administratively by the Director of Planning & Development while other requests must be considered and decided by the Board of Adjustment:
  • Administrative Variance Application and Instructions.

Decisions made by the Board of Adjustment shall be final. All appeals of decisions made by the Board of Adjustment shall be by writ of certiorari from the Rockdale County Superior Court pursuant to Sec. 238-13.

Calendar

The Board of Adjustment meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Rockdale County Assembly Hall or Auditorium, unless otherwise noted or except in the event of lack of business, in which case a public notice of the cancellation will be posted at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting.

All meetings are held at the Rockdale County Assembly Hall, 901 N Main St NW or Auditorium, 903 N Main St NW, Conyers, GA, 30012.