Tigard, OR Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)
Key Facts
- Use category
- Office (Section 18.60.060)
- Veterinary offices outside a campus
- Categorized as Office
- COM, MUC and MUE zones
- Office allowed
- MUR zone
- Office restricted
- IND zone
- Office prohibited
- Animal boarding kennels
- Contained completely within a building
Summary
In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a veterinary office outside of a campus setting is categorized as Office under Section 18.60.060 of the Community Development Code, and veterinarian offices are named in the Office examples. The Office rows of the zone tables then decide the address: allowed in the COM, MUC and MUE zones, restricted in MUR, prohibited in IND.
f. Veterinary or medical offices outside of a campus setting, such as hospitals, are categorized as Office. ... J. Office. ... 1. Characteristics: ... An office is characterized by activities that generally focus on business, professional, medical, or financial services. ... 3. Examples: Examples include medical, dental, veterinarian, laboratories or research and development facilities;
Full Breakdown
The City of Tigard sorts every land use into a use category before it reads a zone table. Section 18.60.060 covers the commercial categories. Under Indoor Sales and Services it adds a clarification that veterinary or medical offices outside of a campus setting, such as hospitals, are categorized as Office. The Office category repeats the point in its examples: medical, dental, veterinarian, laboratories or research and development facilities, financial services, and professional offices for attorneys, architects and engineers. Its characteristics sentence describes an office as activity focused on business, professional, medical, or financial services.
Once a clinic counts as Office, the use tables set the location. Table 18.120.1 lists Office as allowed in the COM, MUC and MUE commercial zones and restricted in the MUR zone. Table 18.130.1 lists Office as prohibited in the IND industrial zone. The MU-CBD zone, the TMU zone and the Washington Square Regional Center follow their own plan district chapters, 18.650, 18.660 and 18.670, as Section 18.120.030.A directs.
Boarding is a separate question. Pet boarding appears in the examples for Indoor Sales and Services, and outdoor kennels for animal boarding appear in the examples for Outdoor Sales and Services. In the COM, MUC and MUE zones, Section 18.120.030 prohibits outdoor animal kennels and requires every animal kennel associated with breeding, boarding, or sales to be contained completely within a building. Section 18.130.030 repeats the indoor requirement for the IND zone.
Violations & Fines
Operating a clinic in a zone where the tables prohibit Office, or running an outdoor kennel where the code requires a building, violates the Community Development Code. Section 18.20.040 makes that unlawful, treats it as a nuisance and a Class I Civil Infraction under Title 6, and counts each day as a separate infraction. Section 1.16.640 caps a Class 1 penalty at $250 per day, doubled for a second similar violation within 24 months.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Can a Tigard veterinary clinic board animals outdoors?
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Sources & Official References
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