Rancho Cordova, CA Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

030(B)) defines an "AUP" as an administrative use permit issued by the designated approval authority once the project clears California Environmental Quality Act review; if the clinic instead needs full CEQA analysis, the code bumps it up to a conditional use permit, a discretionary process. 310-1 lists a "Veterinary Facility" as AUP in the city's rural residential (RR) and estate residential (ER) zones and the two lowest-density detached zones (RD-1, RD-2), and as not permitted ("N") in every remaining residential district, from RD-3 through RD-30, MDR, HDR, and RMH.

307-1 (AG-80 and AG-20). 316-1 (general commercial and industrial districts) allows a veterinary facility by right ("P") in several commercial zones, subject to a footnoted operational condition. 040 draw the line between a "veterinary facility," an enclosed clinic with only enough cages for animals needing acute medical or surgical care plus accessory outdoor long-term care space, and "Kennels, Commercial," a separate use classification listed elsewhere in the same tables that itself requires an AUP. Grooming and boarding at a veterinary facility are allowed only when accessory to the clinical use; a stand-alone boarding or grooming operation would instead be classified and reviewed as a commercial kennel or animal-keeping use under its own table entry, not as a veterinary facility.