Iredell County, NC Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

S. 160D-907, the state statute that requires local governments to treat these homes as a permitted residential use. 1 marks "Family day-care home (8 or less)" with an "R" designation, cross-referenced to Performance Requirement 13, in the AC, RA, RUR, RR and R-20 districts, meaning the use is allowed subject to this performance requirement rather than through a discretionary special use permit process. The parallel entry, "Family care home (6 or less)," carries the same R13 cross-reference across all fourteen listed districts including OI, NB, HB, GB, M1 and M2, giving it broader by-right reach than the day care home entry.

Because R13 folds directly back to the state statute rather than layering additional county-specific numeric standards such as a distance separation or parking count, the operative limits are the six-person and eight-person headcounts printed in the performance requirement itself. 1 lists separately under a different performance requirement, R29, with a narrower set of eligible districts.