Benton County, WA Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

010 to preserve rural character, low densities and wildlife habitat, is one of those districts. 030 lists uses allowed outright on an RL-5 parcel, such as a single-family dwelling or a manufactured home built after June 15, 1976, but a veterinary facility is not on that list. 060, "Uses Requiring a Conditional Use Permit," alongside a school, a community clubhouse, a storage yard owned by a utility, a sand or gravel pit, commercial stables and riding academies, and other uses the county treats as compatible with rural land only under review.

040 before deciding whether to approve, condition, or deny the clinic. 010(188), defines a "Veterinary Facility" as a business establishment or facility that renders surgical and medical treatment to animals and includes inside or outside accommodations for them, so both large-animal and small-animal practices with boarding kennels fall under this same conditional-use track. This provision governs only land zoned RL-5; Benton County's other rural, agricultural and resource zones each carry their own use tables in their own Title 11 chapters, so a veterinary practice proposed outside RL-5 has to be checked against that district's own permitted- and conditional-use list rather than assumed to follow RL-5's rules. 11.