Wyoming, MI Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

Parking is the grooming-specific rule. Table 90-600 in Sec. 90-600 lists "Animal grooming, training and boarding" at 1 space for every 300 square feet of gross floor area (GFA). 90-600(7)(a) rounds any fraction over one-half up to a full space. The same subsection caps the lot at 20 percent above the minimum unless the site plan approval authority finds documented demand for more, and it counts each electric vehicle charging space as one required space, up to six. Sec. 90-600(2) puts the spaces on the same lot or within 300 feet of the nearest building entry, measured from the closest point of the parking facility. A change of use to grooming triggers the table under Sec. 90-600(1)(a), and so does adding floor area or employees to an existing building under (1)(b). The planning review can cut the requirement by no more than 25 percent through shared parking, expected walk-in trade, transit access, or a parking study by a qualified professional, and it can bank part of the requirement as landscaped reserve space that the city can order built later.

The district use lists in Chapter 90 do not name grooming as a standalone use, so a groomer's location is judged through the site plan and the retail and service districts the planner assigns. The line to watch is the kennel definition in Sec. 90-211: any lot or premises where three or more dogs, cats, or other domestic animals age four months or older are kept, "either permanently or temporarily." The definition has no exception for grooming or boarding, and Sec. 90-508 limits the Kennels use to the I-2 General Industrial District, listed in Sec. 90-431B(4) as a use permitted after special approval by the planning commission. It needs 5 acres. All outdoor runs or breeding areas must be enclosed on all sides by an obscuring wall or fence at least 4 feet high and sit at least 50 feet from any property line.

Special use approval runs through Sec. 90-507. The application goes to the city planner with development plans, the planning commission holds a public hearing, and it must make written findings of fact on the standards. Without findings, the special use is null and void and no building or occupancy permit issues. A special use that goes unused for more than one continuous year is automatically voided and must start over as a new application.

At home, Sec. 90-208 allows single chair beauty salons and barbershops as home occupations but states that veterinarian's offices, animal hospitals, and kennels are not home occupations. Operating from a dwelling means no employees outside the immediate family and no outdoor storage, equipment, or signs not allowed in residential areas. Separately, Sec. 50-127 of the city code sets conduct rules that bind every groomer: animal noise cannot be audible beyond the property for more than five minutes in any two-hour period between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., or more than five minutes between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and waste, expressly including "results from grooming," must be contained and removed so odor is not perceptible past the property line.