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

440 is Grant County's standalone standard for veterinary clinics and hospitals in unincorporated territory. 04. In practice this means an applicant has to check the zoning of the parcel, whether it sits in an Urban Commercial district, a Rural General Commercial district, or an Agricultural district, before assuming a clinic can open without a Hearing Examiner review. Once sited, subsection (b) layers on three operating conditions. First, the clinic must meet 'current construction, maintenance and operation standards of the American Animal Hospital Association' at all times, which pulls in a private accreditation body's physical-plant and sanitation benchmarks rather than a county-drafted checklist.

Second, boarding and grooming are flatly prohibited except when incidental to medical and surgical care, so a veterinary clinic cannot double as a standalone boarding kennel or grooming shop under this classification; that use would need to be permitted separately as a kennel under the county's animal-use standards. 230's industrial-use site standards, which the section calls out by name for off-street parking, visual screening, and landscaping, tying a veterinary clinic's site plan to the same buffering rules used for light industrial uses in Grant County.