Burlington, WI Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Burlington's zoning code treats a family day-care home as ordinary residential activity rather than a business needing a conditional use permit or separate zoning approval. A(3), added by Ordinance No. A(3). B(3), permitting a 'Family day-care home in a single-family dwelling' outright alongside single-family detached dwellings, foster homes, and community living arrangements for eight or fewer people. Because the use sits in the permitted-use column rather than the conditional-use column in every one of these districts, an operator does not need Plan Commission review, a public hearing, or a separate zoning permit beyond what any single-family home occupant would already have.

65, Wis. , where care is provided for not more than eight children. That means Burlington's zoning code does not set its own separate capacity number; it simply defers to whatever license the state issues, and a home operating within that state license and the eight-child cap is a zoning-compliant permitted use. A larger capacity facility is classified instead as a child day-care center, a conditional use in the B-1 Neighborhood Business District with its own site and fencing standards.