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Planning Commission Hearing/August 12, 2021
Applicant Comments for Proposed Development
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RE: Z-9600 (Jackson Day Care Family Home – Special Use Permit)
Development Comments
1. Provide hours/days of operation for the day care facility.
2. Provide total number of children to be cared for. A day care family home allows for a maximum of
ten (10) children.
3. Will there be any caregivers/employees from outside the home? If so, state how many and when they
will be at the home.
4. Drop-off/pick-up of children must occur on the concrete driveway. No drop-off/pick-up may occur on
the street. The caregiver(s) will need to park on the existing ground area. How long has the gravel
area on the west side of the carport existed and been used for parking?
5. The proposed day care family home must operate in compliance with Section 36-54(e)(3) as follows:
a. This use may be located only in a single-family home, occupied by the caregiver and
which is the full time residence of the caregiver.
b. Must be operated within licensing procedures established by the Sat of Arkansas. State
regulations shall control the number of employees residing off premises.
c. The use is limited to ten (10) children including the care givers.
d. The minimum to qualify for special use permit is six (6) children from households other
than the care givers.
e. This use must obtain a special use permit in all districts where day care centers are not
allowed by right.
f. After the effective date of this subsection, no Special Use Permit will be approved for a
day care family home proposed to be located within three-hundred (300) feet of a
licensed day care center or an operating day care family home for which a Special Use
Permit has previously been approved. For purposes of this subsection, the distance
between properties shall be measured in a straight line without regard to the intervening
structures or objects, from property line to property line.
g. All day care family homes in the City of Little Rock are required to obtain a City of Little
Rock business license and to pay an annual business tax as specified in Chapter 17 of the
code.
h. A copy of the day care family home’s current State of Arkansas license must be
submitted to the City Collector’s Office each year at the time of payment of the annual
business tax.
i. All vehicles must be parked on an on-site paved surface.
j. All vehicles located on the site must be operational.
k. All pick-up and drop-off of children shall be on the property’s driveway and not on the
public right-of-way unless otherwise approved by the Planning Commission.
l. Special Use Permits for day care family homes shall be reviewed by staff every three (3)
years for compliance with the development criteria and Planning Commission approval.
m. The Fire Marshall must approve use of the residence for the proposed day care family
home.
Civil Engineering Comments
1. Show proposed parking spaces for drop-off within the gravel area.
2. Parking area should be bound and delineated.