Taylor, MI Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

Sec. 13.02(d), Veterinary clinic, sits in the Agriculture and Animal Uses section of Taylor's zoning ordinance alongside the standards for commercial kennels and pet day care. Buildings where animals are kept, along with animal runs and exercise areas, must be set back at least 100 feet from any adjacent residential district or use, and none of that space can be located inside a required front, rear, or side yard setback. All clinic activities, meaning examinations, treatment, and any animal holding, must occur within an enclosed building rather than outdoors.

The boarding of animals at a veterinary clinic is prohibited, with one narrow exception for short-term recovery boarding of a patient healing from treatment, unless the clinic has separately obtained approval to operate as a commercial kennel under Sec. 13.02(a). That companion commercial-kennel section requires its own 100-foot setback from residential districts for buildings, runs and exercise areas, and mandates that any kennel maintain valid county, state, and city licenses. Because a veterinary clinic that wants to offer longer-term boarding must clear the separate commercial-kennel approval, the two provisions work together: the 100-foot setback and enclosed-building rules apply to both, but boarding beyond short-term recovery triggers the kennel-licensing track.