Martin County, FL Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

A ties the local zoning allowance to Florida's own child care licensing scheme, requiring family day care operations to comply with all state of Florida licensing and other requirements before they can run out of a Martin County home. B sets the hard occupancy cap: no more than eight children may be under care at one time, and any children related to the caregiver count toward that eight-child limit. C restricts where the use can locate: family day care is only permitted in a single-family detached dwelling, which excludes other single-family housing forms such as zero lot line homes and townhouses, since those attached configurations raise different fire-access and neighbor-impact concerns than a freestanding house.

66, it does not carry the arterial or collector street frontage requirement, minimum 15,000-square-foot lot, or dedicated pick-up and drop-off driveway that applies to commercial facilities; those heavier site standards only apply once a home care operation exceeds the eight-child cap and needs to be permitted as a commercial day care instead.