Chelan County, WA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

240 sets the zoning-level criteria for in-home daycare operations in the unincorporated county. Subsection (1) defines the covered activity as care, supervision, and guidance provided to a child or group of children age twelve or under, for a period longer than four hours but less than twenty-four hours per day, and conditions the use on the facility meeting all applicable state and local licensing requirements, which are administered separately by Washington's state licensing agency. Subsection (2) caps the operation at twelve or fewer children total.

Because this is a zoning provision rather than a licensing statute, it operates alongside, not instead of, state daycare licensing: Community Development reviews the zoning compliance while the state issues the operating license. 230. Community Development enforces the twelve-child cap and the licensing condition during land use review of the accessory use.