Solano County, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

" That definition first sweeps in a broad range of licensed residential and day care operations serving children, adults, or the physically or mentally impaired, then carves out two exceptions that keep small-scale childcare out of the community care facility category altogether. First, any residential care or day care operation serving six or fewer people (not counting the licensee, the licensee's family, or facility staff) is deemed a residential use rather than a community care facility. " Because zoning districts throughout the unincorporated county permit single-family residential use by right in residential and most agricultural zones, this classification means a homeowner or renter running a licensed small (up to 8 children) or large (up to 14 children) family day care home does not trigger the discretionary permitting, parking studies, or use-permit hearing process that applies to community care facilities, group homes, or other institutional uses under Article IV of Chapter 28.

40, which bars local agencies from requiring a use permit, zoning variance, or other zoning clearance for a family day care home that differs from those required for other single-family dwellings in the same zone, and from imposing spacing or concentration requirements not applied to other family dwellings. 01 rather than by a separate county childcare permit.