Kissimmee, FL Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

Kissimmee Land Development Code § 14-6-37 governs where and how child care facilities may operate in the city. Permitted use status depends on the zoning district per Tables 4-1 and 4-2 of the LDC, but where the tables mark a district "P/C" (permitted/conditional), any child care facility located within 300 feet of a residential zoning district must go through conditional use approval rather than being approved administratively. Beyond zoning, the section imposes site-design standards aimed at traffic safety around drop-off periods. The facility must provide adequate short-term parking for pick-up and drop-off that does not spill into the public right-of-way, and that parking must be located and marked so it is easily identifiable and kept separate from parking serving other uses on the same site, to cut down on conflicts.

Site plans should include separate lanes for vehicles entering and leaving to keep traffic flowing through the lot. The drop-off area itself must sit close to the facility's entrance so children can be dropped off and picked up safely, and the site must include enough queuing and turnaround space that cars waiting for drop-off do not back up onto a public street. Where a child care facility shares a site with other tenants, its pick-up/drop-off area must be kept separate from the other tenants' parking.

These standards were adopted as part of the 2020 Land Development Code recodification and apply at the site plan review stage, before a building permit issues.