Charlotte County, FL Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

4 lists animal hospital, boarding facility as a permitted (P) use by right in the General Commercial (CG) and Tourist Commercial (CT) districts, needing only a standard building permit and business tax receipt. In the Office Medical Institutional (OMI) and Neighborhood Commercial (CN) districts the same use drops to conditional (C), triggering the standard in Section 3-9-69(c)(2), animal hospital and boarding facility in OMI and CN, where outdoor runs are prohibited. That single condition means a clinic in those two districts cannot keep dogs or other boarding animals in outdoor pens or exercise yards; all housing and treatment space has to stay indoors.

Section 3-9-2 defines hospital, animal as any structure or premises used primarily and essentially for the medical care of ill, injured or disabled animals, the term the use table and Section 3-9-69 both apply to boarding and treatment facilities together. 2, meaning a public hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeals before a vet clinic with outdoor kennels can open on agricultural land in the unincorporated countryside outside Punta Gorda.