Whitfield County, GA Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

Whitfield County's Urban Planned Unit Development (U-PUD) district, defined at Section 5-1, is a mixed-use overlay capped at eight acres where at least half the land must remain residential. Section 5-4 lists the specific commercial uses allowed when a U-PUD includes commercial acreage, and pet grooming facilities are named among the permitted 'Retail sales and service' uses alongside nail salons, barber shops, and beauty salons. That whole retail-service category is capped at 1,800 square feet per establishment, so a pet grooming shop inside a U-PUD cannot exceed that footprint.

The same section separately prohibits 'Veterinarian or Animal Hospitals with Outdoor Kennels' outright within U-PUD commercial areas, drawing a line between grooming-only businesses and full veterinary or boarding operations. Outside the U-PUD district, Whitfield County's broader zoning use table also lists 'Pet Shop & Pet Grooming Shop' as a use tied to Section 4-6-18's floor-area standard for the Neighborhood Commercial (C-1) district, but the countywide table's district-by-district permission columns are not reliably attributable in the county's own published export, so this page grounds the pet-grooming standard specifically to the U-PUD provision that is clearly readable.