Carver County, MN Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

073(J) of the Carver County Code of Ordinances lists day care and residential facilities as permitted accessory uses in the Agriculture District. It draws a numeric line between two categories: day care facilities serving ten or fewer persons, and residential facilities serving six or fewer persons. Both are permitted only if the facility is located in a single-family home and, where a license is required, the activity is licensed by the state or other appropriate regulating agency. 073(C), which impose an employee cap, a client limit, and parking restrictions, the day care provision does not carry those same numeric operational restrictions; its threshold is the headcount served (ten for day care, six for residential facilities) and the state licensing requirement.

This places home day care in Carver County's zoning code as a use that piggybacks on the property's residential character rather than one treated as a standalone home business, though a day care operator whose licensed capacity or physical setup would exceed a single-family home's residential use, for example, needing a dedicated commercial building, would fall outside this accessory-use permission and require separate zoning review.