San Antonio, TX Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

Table 311-2, the Nonresidential Use Matrix referenced in Sec. 35-311 of the Unified Development Code, lists two separate veterinary use rows. 5, O-2, NC, C-1, C-2, C-3, and D, is blank. "Veterinary Hospital - Large And Small Animal" is more restrictive still: it carries a "P" only in "I-1" and an "S" in ERZD, with no other district marked. Sec. 35-311(c) defines a "P" as a use "permitted by right within the zoning district," subject to any applicable supplemental use regulations, while an "S" means the use may locate there "only after review and approval of a specific use permit" under the procedures of Sec.

35-423. A blank cell means the use is prohibited unless separately authorized elsewhere in the chapter. This table sits within Article III, and Sec. 35-311(b)(1) states that "no building permit shall be issued for a use not specifically mentioned or described by category in the Use Matrix," so a veterinary practice proposed for a commercial or office-zoned parcel has no by-right path under this table and would need a zoning change, an ERZD specific use permit if within that overlay, or a director determination under the materially-similar-use process in Sec.

35-311(b)(3). The separate "Animal Clinic" use category in the same table carries a broader by-right footprint across NC, C-1, C-2, C-3, D, and L districts, so operators sometimes structure a practice under that classification instead; the director of planning and development services makes the call on which category actually applies to a given clinic's services under Sec. 35-311(b)(3)-(4).