Hollywood, FL Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

J, the Performance Standards that apply to 'All districts except as noted' within the Zoning and Land Development Regulations. Item 4 of that list, Day Care Facilities, splits the topic in two: a home in a single-family zoning district is expressly carved out of the city's own site standards and sent to Broward County Ordinance No. 90-33, as amended, for regulation. 1 does not list Day Care Facility as a permitted, special exception, or accessory use at all, consistent with the city having handed that determination to the county rather than building its own use classification for it.

Anyone opening a family child care home inside a Hollywood single-family neighborhood needs to satisfy Broward County's licensing standards under Ordinance No. J. The same subsection separately sets a 45-square-foot-per-child outdoor play area standard, but that figure is written for Commercial Day Care Facilities, not a residential home occupation, and it is waived entirely for facilities serving adults rather than children. Because the section groups all Day Care Facilities standards together, a homeowner should not assume the commercial figure applies to a single-family home use; the operative instruction for that setting is the cross-reference to the county ordinance.