Eugene, OR Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

5200 to use it. Those standards say education programs offered as a primary activity, such as dance, drama, music, or religious instruction, are limited to preschool-age children. In the R-1 Low-Density Residential and R-2 Medium-Density Residential zones specifically, at least one of the business's owners must actually reside in the building where the day care operates; that owner-residency condition doesn't apply the same way outside R-1 and R-2. Overnight care is off the table entirely unless the operator goes through the conditional use permit process instead of relying on zone verification.

A day care serving seventeen or more people is a different use category altogether: the zone tables classify it as requiring a conditional use permit (C) rather than the lighter zone-verification-plus-standards path used for the smaller four-to-sixteen-person operations, meaning a public hearing and site-specific conditions apply once a home day care grows past sixteen children. 5200 was last amended by Ordinance No. 20699, enacted November 13, 2023, effective December 31, 2023.