Calaveras County, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

010 defines 'Family Day Care' as a day care facility licensed by the state of California, located in a residential unit where the resident of the dwelling provides care and supervision for children under the age of eighteen for periods of less than twenty-four hours a day. That classification then appears in the land use regulation tables for every base zoning district in the county. 020, Land Use Regulations - Residential Zones, marks the same use 'P' in the RR, R1, R2, and R3 zones with no extra column noted, meaning a resident of any standard residential district can operate a licensed family day care home without a discretionary use permit, administrative use permit, or conditional use permit; the code reserves those permit types (the 'A' and 'C' designations) for uses like mobile home parks and co-housing, not family day care.

The only condition the code itself imposes on a Resource Zone property (GF, TP, A1, AP, RA) is that the day care operate inside the existing dwelling rather than as a freestanding structure. Because state licensing is built into the local definition, an operator still has to secure and maintain a license from the State of California; the county classification tracks that state licensing requirement rather than imposing a separate county license.