Sacramento County, CA Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

C and last amended July 16, 2020, sets minimum parking for "Animal and Pet Services" by splitting the category in two: boarding and riding stables need one space per employee plus one space per five stalls, while a Veterinarian, Animal Hospital use needs four to five spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, a materially higher ratio than the three-per-1,000 the same table sets for banks and credit unions. 3, classifies the use narrowly: "Veterinarian, Animal Hospital" means "establishments where small animals receive medical and surgical treatment," a definition that keeps large-animal or livestock veterinary work under separate agricultural use categories rather than this parking standard.

Older facilities get a distinct path into compliance. I grandfathers "dog kennels and veterinarian hospitals lawfully in place and located in the then A-1-A, A-2, A-5, and A-10 zones on June 30, 1972," treating them as a permitted use subject to all the regulations that apply to permitted uses in that zone, though proof may be required that the establishment was lawfully in place as of that date. 21(A) parking ratio before it opens.