South Fulton, GA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Sec. 08 treats a family day care home as a regulated home occupation, not a by-right use anywhere in the city. It is prohibited outright within multifamily dwelling units, so it can only operate from a single-family or townhouse home. Outdoor play areas must be provided as required by Georgia law, but they are restricted to side or rear yards outside the minimum yard setback and cannot occupy any yard adjoining a street, keeping children away from road frontage. Any given family day care home must sit at least 1,000 feet in every direction from another home operating the same use, spacing them out across residential neighborhoods.

, narrower than commercial day care facilities under Sec. 12 and without a special-use-permit path to extend them. Operators must hold a current, certified copy of the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning's (DECAL) license for a Family Child Care Learning Home and file it with the city's business license application and every renewal. The broader home-occupation rules in Sec. 11 cross-reference this section and give family day care homes a higher client cap, up to six children on-site at once, compared with the two-client limit that applies to other home occupations.