Daytona Beach, FL Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

b sets the use-specific standards that apply to any child care facility in Daytona Beach, on top of whatever base zoning district standards otherwise govern the site. The facility first has to comply with all applicable county and State licensing and operating regulations. Yard setbacks are pegged to whichever is larger: the setback that would normally apply in the district where the facility sits, or the setback required in the T-4 Tourist Office Retail district. Where the facility operates as the principal use of the lot, it has to sit at least 500 feet from any existing industrial zoning district, unless the facility is also a permitted use in that industrial district, and at least 500 feet from any existing industrial use, with the same carve-out if the industrial use itself is not permitted where it sits.

m. E. Where a child care facility is approved as a Special Use rather than a use permitted by right, it also has to sit at least 600 feet from any other lot containing a child care facility, and its signage is limited to a single directory sign, restrictions that do not apply to facilities allowed outright in their district.