Collierville, TN Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Section 151.003 defines a family day care home as a home (an occupied residence) operated by a person for the purpose of receiving a minimum of five and a maximum of seven children under 17 years of age who are not related to that person and whose parents or guardians are not residents in the same house, for less than 24 hours per day for care. The definition text ends mid-phrase in the code, at 'without transfer of legal.'

Section 151.021(A)(2) explains the use table. If a principal use is allowed by right, the district's column is marked with an X or a number indexed to a footnote or to § 151.024. A blank column means the use is not allowed there, and a CUP entry means a conditional use permit under § 151.310. In the table, the Family day care home (children only) row carries an X under FAR, R-L, R-L1, R-25, R-1, R-1A, R-2, R-2A, R-3, R-3A, R-4 and R-TH. T is blank, MPO carries CUP, SCC and GC carry X, and TN carries X; RI, GI, CB, NC and MU are blank.

A day care center (children only) is a separate listed use with different treatment: its row carries CUP in the same residential columns from FAR through R-TH, so a center needs a conditional use permit where a family day care home does not. Conditional uses are allowed only on a permit granted by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen based on a recommendation from the Planning Commission, under § 151.004(F)(1). Uses not listed are reviewed by the Town Planner, and the determination can be appealed to the Board of Zoning Appeals under § 151.308.