Parker, CO Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

The Town of Parker does not let a family day care operate under the lighter home occupation rules that cover things like tutoring or consulting out of a house. Section 13.05.050(d)(6)a.2 expressly excludes day care for both adults and children, along with group homes, group residential facilities, assisted or independent living, and continuing care, from the home occupation category, directing that these uses instead be regulated under the standards specific to each use elsewhere in the LDO. For a residential day care, that separate standard is Section 13.05.030(d)(3): a residential daycare meeting the definition of a family child-care home under Section 26-6-102(4), C.R.S., must comply with the Parker Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings, the Town's adopted building code for one- and two-family dwellings under Chapter 11.02.

The allowed-use table, Table 13.05.A, separately lists "Daycare, Residential" as a permitted use with additional standards in most residential and mixed-use districts, cross-referenced to this same Section 13.05.030(d)(3), while "Daycare, Commercial" is tracked as its own use with its own parking ratio in Table 13.08.F. Because the family child-care home carve-out routes through the residential building code rather than the home occupation operation standards, a residential day care is not bound by the two-customer or one-employee caps that apply to ordinary home occupations, but it is bound by whatever construction, occupancy, and life-safety standards the Parker Residential Code imposes on the dwelling.