Rialto, CA Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

Rialto's zoning code treats veterinary and animal hospital uses differently depending on the district. 020(B) lists 'animal hospital' as a permitted use, meaning it requires only a standard building permit and business license, the same treatment given to funeral homes, repair garages, and mechanical car washes elsewhere in that subsection. 020. No animal hospital or veterinary use appears in the permitted or conditional use lists for Rialto's residential zones, C-1, or C-2 zones, so the C-3 and PID zones are effectively the only districts where the use is addressed by name.

050(E)(5) requires one off-street parking space for every two hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area for a 'veterinarian office or animal hospital,' the same ratio the code applies to community shopping centers, a more generous standard than the one-space-per-two-hundred-square-foot ratio required for medical and dental offices in the same subsection.