Skagit County, WA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

246 defines a family day care provider as a group-care establishment accessory to a single-family residence, operated in the home that is the abode of the person or persons who directly supervise the clients. The definition covers both adult day care and child day care, and either type must be licensed by the State of Washington to qualify for this use. The section sets a hard headcount limit: no more than 12 adults or children may be present in any 24-hour period, and that count includes any children who already reside in the home, so a provider's own kids count against the cap alongside enrolled clients.

240's day care center category, which covers larger nonresidential care operations. The one zone-specific limitation is in the Ag-NRL agricultural resource zone: a family day care provider located there cannot result in any conversion of resource land, meaning the use has to operate within the working farm's existing developed footprint rather than displacing agricultural acreage. 246 does not add further zone-based restrictions to the 12-person cap and State licensing requirement.