Clovis, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

465, and both definitions cover a detached house, townhouse, or a unit within a larger dwelling or multifamily building. 46)," meaning Clovis cannot impose its own discretionary approval layer on top of the state process. 080(C) requires the large home to be the day care provider's principal residence, with the use "clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property as a residence," and it must comply with the State Uniform Building Standards Code and carry a fire extinguisher and smoke detectors meeting State Fire Marshal standards.

; the Director can approve different hours within that fourteen-hour window if satisfied no noise impact will result. Parking is scaled to the home itself: the facility needs only the number of spaces required for a single-family dwelling, and its driveway can count toward both the parking requirement and the drop-off area. Day care centers, as opposed to family day care homes, are a different use entirely: they require a conditional use permit, a 10,000-square-foot minimum parcel in nonresidential zones, a six-foot solid decorative fence or wall on the property lines with a landscaped buffer, and a thirty-foot separation from any residential zoning district.