Santa Clarita, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

010, lists "Family Day Care Homes" as a defined residential use covering a private single-family dwelling where nonmedical care and protection are provided to individuals for periods less than 24 hours. The code splits the use into two tiers: an adult day care home serving up to six adults, and a family day care home serving up to 14 children. Both are marked "P" (permitted by right, no discretionary review) across every residential zone in the city's zoning matrix, from the NU (Neighborhood Urban) and UR (Urban Residential) series through the CR, CC and CN commercial-residential overlay zones.

The only physical development standard the code attaches to the use is parking: two fully enclosed parking spaces are required for the home. Coverage stops at the residential and mixed-use zones; the same table marks the use "X" (not permitted) in the Business Park (BP) and Industrial (I) zones, so a day care operator cannot rely on this residential use classification to locate in an industrial park. 30 of the Health and Safety Code," which is the state Family Day Care Home Act provision that requires cities to treat small family day care homes as a use by right of single-family residences.

Because the local table simply implements that state mandate rather than adding its own conditional-use layer, an operator who is properly licensed by the California Department of Social Services and stays within the six-adult or 14-child caps needs no separate city use permit, variance or public hearing to operate in a residential zone.