Oakland, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

110 folds Family Daycare Homes into the same use classification as ordinary long-term housing. The code adopts the California Health and Safety Code definition: a facility in the provider's own home that regularly provides care, protection and supervision for fourteen or fewer children for less than twenty-four hours a day while parents or guardians are away. Because state law licenses and regulates these homes through the California Department of Social Services, Oakland's zoning code does not layer on its own separate use permit, conditional use permit or civic-activity review.

150, which is the classification that applies to larger, non-residential child-care operations and can carry its own zone-specific permitting. That separation matters because Limited Child-Care Civic Activities can require Conditional Use Permits or be capped by zone, while a small family daycare home operating out of a residence is folded into Permanent Residential Activities and permitted by right in every zone where residential use itself is permitted, mirroring the state's policy of treating small family daycare as an accessory use of a home rather than a standalone commercial activity subject to local land-use discretion.