Davis, CA Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

040 sets a flat one-hundred-foot separation between any animal or veterinarian hospital and the nearest residential district boundary, restaurant, hotel or motel, regardless of the zoning district the hospital itself sits in. The section also requires the operator to show that adequate measures and controls will prevent offensive noise and odor from the animals housed or treated on site, a standard the community development department applies during site plan or conditional use review before a hospital can open. The provision separately bars any incineration of refuse on the premises, so a veterinary practice cannot dispose of animal waste or medical refuse by on-site burning; it must use an off-site or licensed disposal method instead.

030, a stricter standard reflecting the larger scale of feed yard and boarding operations compared with a veterinary clinic. Because the one-hundred-foot distance runs to the district line rather than to individual homes, a hospital proposed near the edge of a commercial or industrial zone still has to measure the gap to the nearest residentially zoned parcel, not just to an occupied house.