Sugar Land, TX Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Section 2-71 of Sugar Land's Land Development Code holds Table 2-71.1, the Permitted Uses and Parking Schedule for Residential Zoning Districts, and it sorts home child care into two uses by headcount. A Child Care Home (≤6 Children) shows a P in all seven columns: R-1E, R-1, R-1R, R-1Z, R-2, R-3 and R-4. Under Section 2-55, P designates a use permitted by right in the district indicated. A Child Care Home (≥7 Children) shows a C in the same seven columns, which Section 2-55 defines as a use allowed only through an approved conditional use permit.

Both rows share one definition: a dwelling where state licensed care, protection, and supervision are provided, for a fee, at least twice a week, for less than twenty-four hours per day, under Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 19. The larger tier tops out at twelve children at one time. The count includes the children of the adult provider, so the provider's own kids use up part of the six-child or twelve-child allowance. Each row lists parking as 2: Dwelling Unit and leaves the Notes column blank, so no numbered supplemental regulation attaches to either one.

A conditional use permit under Sections 2-19 through 2-27 is a site-specific review. The Commission holds a public hearing after notice is published before the 15th day ahead of it, with notice given to owners of premises within 200 feet. It recommends approval or denial to City Council, which holds its own hearing. The affirmative vote of at least ¾ of all Council members is required to overrule a recommendation of denial or to approve over a signed protest petition from adjoining landowners. Council approves the permit by ordinance, can attach reasonable conditions, weighs traffic, noise, compatibility and land use intensity under Section 2-22, and the permit runs with the land.

The same split appears for the Hill Area Residential District (HR-1) in Table 2-157.1 and for the Lake Pointe Redevelopment District in Table 2-123.1: six or fewer children is P, seven or more is C. Section 2-194, the old home occupation section, was deleted by Ord. No. 2149 on February 19, 2019. Section 2-71 was last amended by Ord. No. 2339 on 6-6-24.