Kendall County, IL Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

Kendall County defines animal hospital in Section 36-2 as any building or portion thereof designed or used for the care, observation or treatment of domestic animals, and it lists both veterinary establishments (B-2, Section 36-716(26)) and animal hospital (B-3, Section 36-748(3), which adopts every B-2 permitted use plus more) as permitted uses, meaning a veterinarian can locate and operate without a special use hearing once basic B-2 or B-3 site standards are met. The limiting condition sits directly in the B-2 text: a veterinary establishment is permitted but not including the boarding of animals except for overnight stays for medical treatment and observation, so a clinic that also wants to run a boarding kennel, grooming-only overnight stays, or a doggy daycare beyond medical necessity steps outside the permitted-use description and needs a separate approval, most likely a kennel special use under Section 36-282(31) in an industrial district.

B-1 Local Shopping District treats the same activity more cautiously: Section 36-686(13) lists veterinary establishments only as a special use requiring Zoning Board of Appeals review, with the identical boarding limitation. Because Kendall County zones its own unincorporated territory under 55 ILCS 5/5-12001, none of Oswego's, Yorkville's, Plano's or any other municipality's separate veterinary rules apply outside those cities' limits; a clinic on unincorporated land along a B-2-zoned highway corridor answers only to the County's Planning, Building & Zoning Department and this Code.