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We have to get a Home Occupation License from the city zoning office. Then we have to mail a copy of it in with our initial license to show the area we live in allows home daycares.
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Family childcare (less than 8 children) cannot be restricted by any local municipalities per state law (same as the poster last week). Group childcare must obtain commercial zoning and the applicable inspections. It would also be subject to local ordinances and neighborhood covenants.
Local covenants and townships (like ours) can however, restrict signage. So, even though I can run my daycare without a problem, I cannot put a sign out permanently. I could, however, leave my car parked in the driveway with signs on it if I wanted to...
I don't have car signs though.
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I'm in CA and although you don't need to ask permission from a landlord to care for 6 children or less you do have to have permission if you will care for more than six. In my city/county we don't have to get permission to run FCC from our homes but in a section of a city near me (8 minutes away) you have to get permission if you will have a large license. I hear it's costly too, somewhere along the lines of $7-$10K and you don't have a guarantee that you'll get approved even after spending all of that $$$. I hear that there are no large FCC homes in that section of the city ... no kidding. It's weird too because it's only a section of the city but everywhere else in the city it's fine and you don't need to have approval.Comment
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Township approval is required for group home (6-12) but not for family home (under 6 children) and this is up to each local governing agency here in Michigan. So... as a group I could live in another county or township and not need the approval.I see little people.Comment
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I voted no. Here in NC we can watch 2 unrelated to us without a license. We can watch 5 total or 5 preschool + 3 school aged depending on where you live and neither require the approval of city/town/etc - at least not in my town. I do believe there are some towns that do require it though. But if you live in a subdivision with and HOA, you do need to have HOA approval for the 5 or 8. If you want to expand to a larger group in your home (here it's called a Center in a Residence) you can go up to 12 but you need approval the same as any other center would - zoning, fire, sanitation, etc before licensing.Comment
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Just wanted to add.....in FL, HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS rules are king. Even if the city and county approve everything, the HOA can kill anything. It's ridiculous..... They are like mini fiefdoms. Grrrr. I live in deed restricted community (not my center, it's downtown) and they'd sick a lawyer on me quicker than lightning if I tried doing home daycare.Comment
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No, unless you are not living in the home. My community has nothing on the books concerning FCC if you are not living there. If your city has an ordinance in regard to operating a FCC in a home that you do not live in, you have to get it cleared by your city. State law states If you do reside in the home it can not be disputed.Comment
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We don't have to ask, but our city does have specific restrictions that licensing does not.
For example, our regulations do not specify that we must actually live in the home we provide care in, but the city does. So we can't rent a home exclusively for a daycare.
Although, my licensor did subtly suggest staging a rented home to look lived in
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I don't but I do have to have a business license in my town $25 a year
next town over they do have to get permission sometimes they can only have limited children. I think it is based on parking.It:
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Ouch, on the cost, and then not approving anyone. I'm in California too, I heard that for large family child care approval it's different everywhere. Also in California you can't run a 'family child care home' in a house you are not living in. It has to be a 'center' at that point and you have to follow all the rules as such.Comment
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I had to be licenced through the state, but my local town kinda needed to give permission as far as zoning was concerned. It wasn't any big deal, in fact was only a review of my location to confirm that traffic patterns and such wouldn't be an issue.Chief cook, bottle washer & spider killer...Comment
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In Florida we have a state law that guarantees that we can have a home child care but each county is different in what it requires.
In some you don't have to be licensed, some you just have to be registered, and some licensed. Our county has one of the strictest and we need to be licensed. Our county adds some of their own rules onto the basic state rules (I think) and they inspect and license us.
However, if we want a large family childcare (twice the number of children and two providers) then it is up to each city/county. Some allow them and some don't.
I may only watch one child or two children from the same family without a license.
Laurel
P.S. I always think it sounds weird when someone on here will say they are not licensed or they are considering whether to get licensed or not. I wish we had a choice! I get jealous,
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I voted yes. I live in Maryland, so it's the same as Brooksie stated.Comment
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Are you sure?
I am in Southeast Florida and belong to a Homeowner's Association. It just may not object but if it did I would think a state law (which I have a copy of) would trump a homeowner's association.
If our homeowner's association said No, I'd have to check with the state attorney.
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I have a state license and a city license. However, after originally obtaining the city one it's basically just a send in your money and we send you a license yearly thing.Comment
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