Ogden, UT Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

Ogden City Code section 15-13-12(A) sets the zoning-level standards a daycare center (as distinct from a licensed home-based family child care provider) must meet. First, licensing and regulation of daycare centers must follow Utah Code Annotated title 62A, chapter 2, as amended, layering the state's separate childcare licensing regime onto the city's zoning approval. ; the section cross-references the general fence height standard in section 15-13-7 rather than setting its own height, so a daycare center's play-yard fence must meet the same four-foot front yard and seven-foot side/rear yard limits (or the six-foot corner lot exception) that apply to any other fence in the zone.

Third, the center must provide sufficient off-street parking to satisfy section 15-12-3 of the zoning title, the same chapter that sets the city's general parking-space-count and electric-vehicle-charging tables, so a daycare center's parking count is calculated from its actual floor area or occupancy under that chapter rather than a childcare-specific number. Together these three requirements make daycare center siting turn on state licensure plus two cross-referenced zoning chapters rather than a freestanding building-safety code.