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

083 let residents run a business from home only within limits, and division (D) draws a hard line by name-checking uses the County Board decided are simply incompatible with a residential setting no matter how the general home occupation criteria are applied. 083(D)(8), so a resident cannot get around the general clinic ban by branding the practice as a veterinary business instead. 081(A), contractor shops and yards, junkyards, solid waste facilities, vehicle sales, funeral homes, restaurants and bars, tea rooms, tourist homes, antique shops, nursing homes and manufacturing or processing, plus a catch-all for anything the Zoning Administrator finds substantially similar in character or intensity.

Because a veterinary clinic cannot be authorized as a home occupation, it has to locate on a parcel zoned for the appropriate commercial, agricultural or manufacturing use category elsewhere in the county's zoning districts, following the standard use-table and site-plan process for that district rather than the streamlined home occupation path. This provision reaches only unincorporated Madison County land; a veterinary practice inside Edwardsville, Collinsville or another incorporated city is governed by that city's own zoning code, not this county section.