Utah County, UT Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

100 lets the Planning Commission approve buildings and facilities for a veterinarian licensed by the State of Utah only in zones where that use is listed as a Conditional Use, and only after the applicant clears a specific list of standards. The site must have vehicular access from a paved state or county road with the frontage and width the applicable zone requires, and the design of parking, access roads, water, sewage, trash collection, and fire protection has to meet the requirements of the adopted codes of Utah County.

The Planning Commission does not leave operating hours to the vet: the applicant must submit a business operation plan that includes the requested hours of operation, and those hours of operation must be approved by the Planning Commission before the clinic can run on that schedule. The ordinance also restricts what a licensed clinic can sell, barring a license for the retail sale or resale of any product not directly associated with animal care, so a veterinary office cannot double as a pet-supply retailer. 08.

Perhaps the most distinctive standard is financial: not less than 40% of the average annual gross receipts generated by the business, calculated over each consecutive two-year rolling period, must come from the medical treatment of large domestic livestock, with the clock starting at the clinic's first full fiscal year holding a valid Utah County Business License. That requirement keeps the conditional use tied to large-animal practice rather than a general small-animal office, and after construction the owner still has to obtain a zoning compliance permit before occupying the building.