St. Petersburg, FL Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

230, OFFICE, VETERINARY), governed by the zoning district's use matrix, the general development standards, and the section's own restrictions. 2) before these operating standards even apply. 3 limits what the use can include: boarding of animals is allowed only as an incidental part of the veterinary practice, not as a standalone kennel or boarding business, and any boarding space has to be soundproof, air-conditioned, and fully enclosed, which rules out open-air kennel runs as part of the boarding operation itself. The section then draws a hard geographic line for outdoor runs or pens: they are prohibited altogether on any property that sits within a residential zoning district or that abuts a residential use, regardless of screening or fencing, location alone disqualifies them.

Where outdoor runs or pens are otherwise permitted but are visible from any street, including an alley, they must be screened with a six-foot-high solid fence or wall plus landscaping meeting the Chapter's landscaping and irrigation section. The 2015 amendment (Ord. No. 203-H, § 20, adopted November 23, 2015) added the current screening and residential-adjacency language to the original 1992-code section. Because this sits in the land development code rather than Chapter 4 Animals, it's a zoning and site-design rule enforced through the permitting and certificate-of-occupancy process, not a standalone animal-control ordinance.