Bannock County, ID Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Bannock County's zoning ordinance ties home daycare rules to how many state-licensed children a home cares for at one time. Under Section 17.20.030(I), governing permitted uses in the Residential Suburban (RS) district, a state-licensed day care for up to six client children in the operator's primary residence, or a day care center, is permitted outright with staff review of the site plan, no conditional use permit needed. Once the count rises above six, Section 17.20.040(B) shifts the use into conditional territory: a state-licensed day care for more than six children up to a maximum of twenty children in the operator's primary residence needs a conditional use permit from the Planning and Development Council, and licensed care for more than twenty children can only be conditionally permitted in a structure that was not originally built as a residence.

The Agricultural (A) and Residential Rural (RR) districts track the same six-child line: Section 17.12.030(G) permits day care homes with up to six client children outright in the A district, Section 17.12.040(H) makes seven-or-more-child day care homes or centers conditional there, and Section 17.16.030(C) permits up to six children in the RR district while Section 17.16.040 pulls in the RS district's conditional use list, including its day care tiers, for anything larger. In every district, the operator still needs the underlying state day care license before the zoning classification matters, and Planning and Development Services reviews the site plan or conditional use application before the higher tiers can operate.