Warner Robins, GA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)
Key Facts
- Child cap as home occupation
- 6 children (excludes provider's own)
- Daycare home definition threshold
- 3-6 unrelated children, under 24 hrs/day
- Home floor area cap
- 25% of dwelling
- Permitted hours (public-facing)
- 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- License required
- Occupational tax license, mayor and council
Summary
Warner Robins allows childcare for up to six children as a home occupation, but a resident running one must obtain an occupational tax license and follow the same general home-occupation limits on space, signage, hours and traffic as any other home-based business.
95.4. Allowable uses. The following uses are examples of allowed home occupations: General office or business services. Studios/work spaces for handicraft production, fine arts, cooking, tailors, etc. Direct sale product distribution (Avon, Tupperware, Pampered Chef, etc.). Barber/beauty shop. Counseling/tutoring Contractors, painters, masonry or plumbing. Landscape maintenance. Television or other small electrical repairs, excluding major appliances (i.e. washers, dryers, refrigerators, televisions larger than thirty-six (36) inches, etc.). Upholstering. Woodworking and furniture restoration. Childcare for up to six (6) children, excluding the children of the provider.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
The zoning ordinance defines a Daycare home in Section 32 as a private residence operated by any person who receives, for pay, fewer than twenty-four hours per day, three but not more than six children under eighteen who are not related to the operator and whose parents are not residents of that home. 4 lists allowable home occupations and explicitly names childcare for up to six children, excluding the provider's own children, as one of them. for anything open to the public, and employ no one but the principal occupants of the dwelling.
3 additionally confines any related parking to the home's own driveway, barring on-street or yard parking and any shared parking arrangement. 7, the operator must obtain occupational tax license approval from the mayor and council before opening, and that permit expires if the operator stops occupying the home, stops running the daycare for six consecutive months, or is revoked by the zoning enforcement officer for noncompliance. 3(3) rather than qualifying automatically as a home occupation.
Violations & Fines
Operating a home daycare without the required occupational tax license, exceeding the six-child cap, employing anyone besides the resident operator, or violating the general home-occupation limits on floor area, hours, signage, or driveway-only parking is a zoning and licensing violation; the zoning enforcement officer can revoke the permit under Section 95.7.1.3, and continued unlicensed operation is subject to the city's standard citation and fine process.
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