5 rules for unincorporated Collier County, Florida.
Verified from official government sources
Collier County's Land Development Code (LDC 5.02.03) allows home occupations in zoning districts that permit dwellings, but the business must be clearly incidental to residential use, conducted by an occupant, generate no extra traffic, and not change the home's residential character.
Home occupations in unincorporated Collier County may not advertise with signs. LDC 5.02.03 prohibits on-site or off-site advertising signs for a home occupation, and there can be no other exterior evidence that a business is operating from the residence.
Florida's cottage food law (FS 500.80) lets Collier County residents make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from their home kitchen without a state food permit, as long as annual gross sales of cottage food products stay at or below $250,000.
FS 500.80(1)
A cottage food operation must comply with the applicable requirements of this chapter but is exempt from the permitting requirements of s. 500.12 if the cottage food operation complies with this section and has annual gross sales of cottage food products that do not exceed $250,000.
A family day care home in Florida (FS 402.302) is an occupied residence caring for children from at least two unrelated families. Capacity is capped by age — up to 10 children maximum — and Collier operators must register or be licensed with the state, plus meet home-occupation zoning.
FS 402.302(8)(d)
A maximum of 10 children if no more than 5 are preschool age and, of those 5, no more than 2 are under 12 months of age.
Running a business from a home in unincorporated Collier County generally requires a Land Use & Zoning Certificate for a home occupation from Growth Management, plus a county Business Tax Receipt. The certificate confirms the use meets LDC 5.02.03 before the business tax receipt is issued.
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