Appendix 525. Day/child/adult care centers.

May be placed in separate facilities in various zones according to the number of occupants served:

Occupants	Permitted in:
1—5 (Family care)	All zoning districts
6—12 (Group care)*	All residentially zoned lots > 20,000 SF** All commercial districts
13+ (Day care)*	All commercial districts**
*  Commercial building code shall be adhered to.
** Access to said facility must be provided via all weather surface.

 

Facilities shall be accessory uses in HI districts, and conditional uses in all other zoning districts, except as stated herein.

General provisions:

(1)

All facilities shall meet the requirements as specified in S.C. Code, title 63, chapter 13 and any other applicable federal, state, and county laws and regulations.

(2)

All facilities shall conform to all applicable standards of any ordinance in effect within Horry County. The zoning administrator shall ensure that all standards are met prior to issuing a certificate of zoning compliance.

(3)

Reserved.

(4)

All facilities shall provide parking lots with one (1) parking space for each employee and one (1) parking space per six (6) children cared for in the facility. If a facility utilizes a twenty-two-foot wide drive aisle for loading and unloading, one (1) parking space shall be waived for each twenty-three-foot section of drive aisle not including twenty (20) feet from the entrance and exit from the roadway. All facilities utilizing the drive aisle are required to meet the employee parking standard of one (1) parking space for each employee.

(5)

Reserved.

(6)

All outdoor lighting shall be directed away from residential properties in accordance with the provisions of section 520 of the Horry County Zoning Ordinance.

(7)

All facilities shall submit a detailed site plan for review and approval by the planning staff before the facility goes into operation.

(8)

All facilities shall be operated and housed in a permanent structure. All such structures shall meet requisite fire and building codes and the required site plan shall be approved by Horry County staff prior to receiving permission to operate the facility.

(9)

All facilities are hereby precluded from operating in residential subdivisions where deed restrictions or covenants do not specifically permit day care facilities/centers. Each applicant must sign a sworn statement certifying that the proposed facility in the proposed location is specifically permitted by the deed restrictions. If it is determined that the location is in violation of deed restrictions, the approval to operate a day care center shall be automatically revoked.

(10)

All proposed facilities shall be physically inspected for zoning compliance prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy.

(11)

No group care facility shall be located on the same street within five hundred (500) feet of another residential center, measured from the nearest property lines of the group care facility.

(Ord. No. 67-88, 4-18-89; Ord. No. 17-93, § 1, 4-20-93; Ord. No. 10-94, § 1, 3-15-94; Ord. No. 50-09, § 1, 11-3-09; Ord. No. 19-18, § 1, 4-3-18; Ord. No. 114-18, § 1, 1-10-19)