Waukesha, WI Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

37 establishes the B-5 Community Business District to serve businesses along principal highway routes and through-traffic corridors, and its Permitted Principal Uses list opens with animal hospitals, veterinary services, and boarding of animals, on the condition that the boarding component is not adjacent to a residential district. That adjacency condition is the operative restriction: a veterinary clinic itself is a straightforward permitted use in B-5 requiring only the standard building permit process, but if the practice also boards animals overnight, its site plan has to keep that boarding function away from residentially zoned property lines.

40, so a clinic has more than one commercial or light-industrial district available to it in the City. Chapter 22 does not list animal hospitals or veterinary clinics as a permitted, accessory, or conditional use in any RS, RD, or RM residential district, so operating one in a residential zone would require a rezoning to B-5, M-3, or another district where the use is listed, not a conditional use permit or variance. 15 before a building permit issues, covering parking, access, and buffering from any nearby residential use.