Middletown, OH Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

01(24) of the Development Code, which permits a Type B family day care home as an accessory use to a single-family dwelling in every residential zoning district, without a conditional use hearing or variance. 02 caps the operation at one to six children present at one time, with no more than three of them under two years old; the provider must live at the home, since the definition describes a permanent residence of the provider where the care is given. The section also addresses a common counting question: children under six who are related to the provider and who are on the premises count toward the one-to-six total, and the code otherwise falls back on the Ohio Revised Code's definition for anything it does not separately spell out.

Because Type B homes are accessory to the dwelling rather than a separate land use, they do not trigger the certificate-of-zoning-compliance or landscape-buffer requirements that apply to freestanding accessory structures elsewhere in Chapter 1206, and they are distinct from a nursery school or day care center, the larger institutional use defined elsewhere in Chapter 1230, which is only allowed as accessory to an approved public or institutional use, not a private home. A provider still needs the separate Type B license the State of Ohio requires for a home caring for children; Middletown's zoning code addresses only where the use may locate, not the licensing itself.