Daytona Beach, FL Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

9 of the Daytona Beach Land Development Code classifies a family day care home as an accessory use tied to a single-family dwelling, meaning the use rides along with the house rather than existing as its own permitted use category. The city's Article 5 accessory-use table confines that accessory use to five base zoning districts: SFR-5, the standard single-family district; MFR-12, MFR-20, and MFR-40, the multifamily districts, where it is still tied to a single-family dwelling on the lot; and RP, the residential-professional office district.

It is not listed as permitted in any of the city's business, industrial, agricultural, or transect-code districts (T-1 through T-5), so a family day care home run out of a commercial storefront, or as an accessory structure separate from the house, does not qualify under this section. The ordinance folds in every other layer of regulation that already governs in-home child care by requiring compliance with 'all applicable regulations,' which reaches state child care licensing and any county health and life-safety requirements a family day care home must separately satisfy before it can operate.

Because the LDC text does not add its own occupancy cap, hours-of-operation limit, or parking standard specific to day care, those operational details come from whichever outside licensing regime applies, and the city's role under this section is confined to confirming the use sits on a qualifying single-family lot in one of the five listed districts.