Simi Valley, CA Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

030), "Pet grooming" carries a "P" (permitted use) designation only in the Mixed-Use (MU), Neighborhood Commercial (CN), and Planned Development Commercial (CPD) zoning districts. Every other commercial and industrial zone marks the use with a dash, meaning it is not allowed at all; the table lists no conditional use permit or variance path to add pet grooming in the Office Commercial (CO), Regional Commercial (CR), Community Commercial (CC), Commercial Industrial (CI), Business Park (BP), Light Industrial (LI), or General Industrial (GI) districts. 050 is also required before any new construction tied to the use, per Table 2-5's footnote (2); a tenant improvement into an existing space instead proceeds through the Zoning Clearance process required by Chapter 9-22 (Land Use Permit Requirements).

020, defines "Pet Grooming" narrowly as "a business providing pet washing and other grooming services," so a shop that also boards animals overnight falls instead under the separate "Kennels and animal" use category, which Table 2-5 confines to a Conditional Use Permit in the General Industrial zone only. Operators should confirm their parcel's exact base zoning with the Environmental Services Planning Division before signing a lease, since the MU, CN, and CPD zones are not contiguous citywide and a location one parcel over in CO or CC territory cannot obtain the use no matter how the space is built out.