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

090(B)(3) of the Roseville Municipal Code defines 'veterinary clinic' as a fully enclosed veterinary facility containing only enough cage arrangements as necessary to provide services for small animals requiring acute medical or surgical care, as well as boarding and grooming. 090(B)(4) defines the larger-scale 'veterinary hospital' as a veterinary facility conducted in an enclosed building and an outdoor space which provides long-term medical care, boarding and grooming. The distinguishing facts are the presence of outdoor space and the duration of care: a clinic is confined entirely indoors and handles acute cases, while a hospital adds an outdoor component and offers longer-term stays.

090(B), alongside grooming and pet stores and kennels, and each is separately listed in the zoning use tables of Article II so a district can permit one without the other. Because the classifications are based on function and site layout rather than the practice's name, a business calling itself a 'clinic' that adds outdoor boarding runs may be reclassified as a hospital use, requiring a location where that broader use type is permitted or conditionally permitted. 80 that applies to other disputed use types citywide.