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Council adopts amendment to allow large-animal veterinary clinics in agricultural zones; proponents cite regional need
Summary
The council adopted an amendment to bill 29-25 that defines large-animal veterinary clinics separately and narrows facility requirements; supporters, including local veterinarians, farm bureaus and a student, argued the county lacks emergency surgical capacity for large animals and that a clinic would serve regional needs.
The council reviewed and adopted amendment 1 to bill 29-25, which modifies county construction-code definitions to allow a large-animal veterinary clinic to be treated as an agricultural building when located in an existing permitted structure, requires the operator to be a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons for certain conditional-use privileges, and made other technical clarifications.
Speakers at the public hearing described a shortage of large-animal surgical capacity in the region. A veterinarian who…
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