Carroll County, MD Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

02(A)(7), placing it alongside home occupations, fowl-keeping, and accessory dwelling units as uses that do not need a full conditional-use hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeals. Instead, the operator submits a signed affidavit to the Zoning Administrator stating that the day care 'meets all applicable Maryland State requirements,' which folds the county's zoning sign-off into the state's separate family child care licensing process rather than layering a distinct county floor-area, customer-count, or hour restriction on top of it. That is a lighter path than the home occupation affidavit in the same subsection, which bars customers to the dwelling outright: family day care is treated as its own accessory-use category precisely because it does involve people, children and parents dropping off and picking up, coming to the home.

048 if the operation generates traffic, noise, or other nuisance impacts beyond what the residential district allows. 02 governs the Residence Districts specifically, this affidavit path applies to family day care homes in the R-40,000 through R-7,500 and MHP districts, not to the Agricultural District's separate use table.