California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 1597.22

(1) Placing restrictions on building heights, setback, or lot dimensions of a daycare center, as long as those restrictions are identical to those applied to multifamily housing colocated with that daycare center.

(2) Enacting a local ordinance related to health and safety, building standards, environmental impact standards, or any other matter within the jurisdiction of a local public entity, as long as the local ordinance, as applied to a daycare center, are identical to those applied to multifamily housing colocated with the daycare center.

(3) Enacting a local ordinance to abate nuisances.  However, ordinances or nuisance abatement measures shall not distinguish a daycare center from the multifamily housing colocated with the daycare center.

(1) “Daycare center” has the same meaning as “day care center,” as defined in Section 1596.76.

(2) “Multifamily housing” means residential housing with five units or more.

(3) “Colocated” means operating within, or on the same grounds as, multifamily housing.

(4) “Local jurisdiction” means a city, county, or city and county.

(5) “Use by right” means that a local government's review of a daycare center may not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or any other discretionary local government review or approval that would constitute a “project” for purposes of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.  A local ordinance may provide that “use by right” does not exempt the use from design review.  However, that design review shall not constitute a “project” for purposes of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.