Lynwood, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Lynwood Municipal Code § 25-21-1 defines a family daycare home as a home regularly caring for 14 or fewer children in the provider's own home, splitting the category into a small family daycare home (8 or fewer children) and a large family daycare home (9 to 14 children), each consistent with state licensing regulations. Under § 25-21-2, small family daycare homes are treated as a residential use and permitted by-right in every zone where residential uses are allowed, with no separate permit. Large family daycare homes are permitted in residential zones only after the development services director approves an administrative use permit, which requires findings that there is adequate parking for any nonresident employee and for loading/unloading children without blocking the sidewalk or right-of-way, that the home is not within 300 linear feet of another existing large family daycare home (unless that home is at full capacity or the applicant offers a distinct service), and that the operator is licensed, or has applied to be licensed, by the state.

Section 25-21-2(C) conditions approval on compliance with the noise element of the city's general plan for residential properties, and section (D) requires 10 days' mailed notice to property owners within 100 feet before a decision issues; any affected person or the applicant can request a hearing, held within 30 days. Lynwood Municipal Code § 25-21-3 lets the development services director revoke a large daycare permit for misrepresentation, fraud, six or more consecutive months of ceased operation, or non-compliance with permit conditions, after written notice and a 30-day cure period (extendable for good-faith progress), with a right to a public hearing and appeal under article 100.