Carroll County, GA Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

1)(1)(h) lists privately owned day nurseries, pre-schools, and kindergartens as a use permitted by right in the Agricultural (A) district, alongside schools, churches, and other community facilities, with no conditional use hearing required. 3)(2)(b) lists privately operated day nurseries, preschools, and kindergartens among the uses that may be permitted only after application to the governing authority, a pattern repeated for the Multi-Family Residential and Manufactured Home Subdivision districts. 0)(2) lists day care facilities among four conditional uses, alongside residential dwellings with home occupations, non-drive-in restaurants, and cemeteries.

9): a notarized application signed by the applicant and titleholders owning at least 51 percent of the property, a nonrefundable fee set by the board of commissioners, a boundary survey and development plan, and a public hearing before the planning commission advertised the same way as a rezoning request, followed by a board of commissioners vote considering neighborhood compatibility, traffic, noise, and property-value impacts. A denied applicant may appeal by certiorari to the county superior court. Because Chapter 102 zones unincorporated territory only, none of these day care provisions govern a facility inside Carrollton, Villa Rica, Temple, Bowdon, Whitesburg, Mount Zion, or Roopville.