Charlottesville, VA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

C of the Development Code defines Family Day Home as a child care program serving 1 to 12 children under the age of 13, not counting the provider's own children or any children who already live in the home, offered either at the provider's residence or at the residence of one of the children in care. Because the code carves Family Day Home out as its own accessory use in Div. j confirms the split by excluding 'schools, nursery schools, and day care facilities, other than those meeting the definition of a Family Day Home' from ever qualifying as a Home Occupation, meaning any child care serving more than 12 children, or serving children in a home that does not meet the Family Day Home definition, cannot operate as an accessory use at all and instead needs a General Child Care use permitted under Div.

2's use table in a nonresidential district. 2 controls which residential districts allow Family Day Home as of right, and a provider must also hold whatever state child care licensing Virginia requires, since the Development Code regulates only the land-use side of the operation, not staffing ratios or health inspections.