Peoria, IL Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

A, Child Care Home, sits in the Civic Use Performance Standards chapter and applies to home-based child care operated as an accessory use in a residential zoning district. 9, that the standards in this section are met. The core requirement is a fenced or otherwise barriered outdoor play area sufficient to keep children from wandering onto a neighboring lot, into traffic, or into another hazard; a fence that a neighbor already built cannot be relied on to satisfy this unless that neighbor files a written agreement with the Zoning Administrator authorizing its use.

The code allows the play area to be located off-site instead of on the child care home's own lot, but only if the off-site substitute independently satisfies every applicable state and local statute, ordinance and regulation governing child care facilities, meaning both state licensing rules and the city's own zoning standards apply. A second, narrower standard bars recreational play equipment, such as swing sets or climbing structures, from being placed within the required side yard of any lot that abuts residential property, keeping such equipment away from a shared property line. B standards for a Day Care Center.