Stedman, NC Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

2. A 'day care facility' is defined as a building or dwelling regularly used for recreational or supervisory care of nine or more persons, adults or children, not including the operator's own family members, during any 24-hour period, regardless of profit status or whether the same attendees return each day. 3's residential-district conditional-use standards, which set a 20,000-square-foot minimum lot, 30-foot front and corner setbacks, a 35-foot rear setback, 20-foot side setbacks, thoroughfare-access requirements and off-street parking, are written to apply to 'day care facilities' as that term is defined, meaning they are triggered once a home-based operation reaches the nine-person threshold.

Below that threshold, a caregiver watching a smaller group of children in her own home is not operating a 'day care facility' under this ordinance and is not pulled into the Board of Adjustment conditional-use process, the acreage minimum or the setback package that a larger center must meet. Operators should still confirm their count against the nine-person threshold carefully, since it counts persons under care and excludes only the operator's own family members, not other adults present, and North Carolina licensing rules for child care providers apply independently of this town zoning threshold.