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Planning staff proposes to make family childcare homes and adult care facilities 'uses by right' in residential zones
Summary
Staff told the commission it will align local definitions with Senate Bill 234 so small family childcare homes (up to 8 children) and large family care (9–14 children) are treated as residential uses by right; commissioners pressed staff on outreach and co‑op definitions.
Senior Planner Salifu Yakubu said the update will bring local rules into line with state law, explaining that "family day care homes...are the uses by rights that I was talking about." He described small family care homes (up to eight children) and large family care homes (nine to 14 children) and said landlords must receive 30‑day notice in some cases when providers add children beyond the small‑home threshold.
Commissioners asked whether staff had reached out directly to current family childcare providers and whether cooperative care definitions would capture the community arrangements that proliferated during the COVID pandemic. Commissioner Brent Austin urged targeted outreach to local providers; Yakubu said staff had responded to submitted comments from childcare advocates and that advocates replied they were satisfied with staff responses.
