Layton, UT Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

045 of the Layton Municipal Code lets a home day care operate as a home occupation on a residential property, but it must be licensed by both the State of Utah and Layton City, and it follows all home occupation rules except the standard cap on how much floor area a home business can use. A single-provider home day care is capped at eight children total, counting the provider's own children under age six, and no more than two of those eight may be under age two.

Adding a second provider raises the ceiling to twelve children, with no more than three under age two, but both providers must actually live in the home where the day care operates. The facility must give each child at least 35 square feet of interior space, excluding storage, restroom, or hallway area, and the operator has to submit a floor plan showing exactly which rooms are used, which City staff review and approve before the day care can open. Outdoors, the code requires a minimum of 100 square feet of secured yard space per child, verified by a site plan City staff also review, and any part of the yard judged hazardous to children must be fenced off and cannot count toward that 100-square-foot minimum.

Because it is licensed as a home occupation, a home day care that needs a High-Impact classification, such as one adding a second non-household caregiver, still goes through the same neighbor-notice and Community and Economic Development Director review as any other high-impact home business.