Kenosha County, WI Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

020(d)(1). A conditional use is never permitted outright: the operator must apply through the Kenosha County Department of Planning and Development and win approval from the Planning, Development & Extension Education Committee before opening. 080(b)(6) sets the standards the Committee applies specifically to 'Animal hospitals, shelters and kennels and veterinary services in the B-2 and B-5 Districts,' added August 5, 1994: all animals must be kept within an enclosed structure, and no structure or animal enclosure can sit closer than 100 feet to a property boundary; the operator must make adequate provision for disposing of animal waste; and any building housing animals must be built of noise-deadening material such as concrete.

080(a) also lets the Committee attach further conditions on hours of operation, fencing, lighting or traffic circulation to control nuisance impacts on neighboring parcels. 030(a) applies it only to the unincorporated areas of townships that have adopted it. A veterinary clinic sited inside the City of Kenosha, the City of Lake Geneva, or a village such as Pleasant Prairie, Somers, Paddock Lake, Twin Lakes or Silver Lake answers to that municipality's own zoning code, not Chapter 12. 070.