Oxnard, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

Section 16-440 of the Oxnard Code of Ordinances sets five standards a large family day care home must meet. First, the home must be located in a residence. Second, it must conform to city ordinances on spacing and concentration, traffic control, parking, and noise control. Third, in addition to the residence's required parking spaces in garages, the operator must provide two off-street parking spaces, which may be arranged in tandem, dedicated to loading and unloading children. Fourth, the facility must conform to the fire and life safety building standards for large family day care homes published in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, plus any city ordinances not inconsistent with those state standards that otherwise apply to residences.

Fifth, the home must be located at least 100 feet away from every other large family day care home, a spacing rule aimed at preventing clusters of care facilities on the same block. 6 of the 1964 Code and has been carried forward through Ordinance Nos. 2026, 2671, and 2724. 46) limits how far cities can regulate large family day care homes, Oxnard's standards track the categories the state allows: reasonable spacing, traffic and parking conditions, and the state's own building and fire code. The ordinance does not require a discretionary use permit or public hearing for a large family day care home that meets these five conditions; it instead applies them as objective operating standards enforced through the city's normal code compliance process.