There aren’t any lions or bears, but there is one tiger.

And an elephant. And a horse. Of course.

The animals are some of the patients whose pictures revolve through an online gallery for Reagan Equine, a large-animal veterinary service based in New Hanover County.

This week, property owners within 500 feet of a site encompassing 24 acres on North Kerr Avenue received a letter about Reagan Equine’s proposal to build a large-animal veterinary facility on the land. The project would include grazing fields along North Kerr, with a barn, veterinary offices and a riding ring behind those fields, according to a conceptual site plan that accompanied the letter.

The proposal would require conditional zoning district approval from New Hanover County to change the property's designation from residential to a zone that allows veterinary facilities, according to the letter and conceptual sent to neighbors by Cindee Wolf, owner of Design Solutions, who works with property owners and developers on site design and government planning procedures.

An open house-style meeting on the proposal will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 2926 Boundary St., Suite 100.

Reagan Equine’s offices are currently located at 2925 Boundary St., No. 30, according to the practice’s website. Veterinarian Ginger Reagan is the owner of Reagan Equine Mobile Veterinary Services, the website says, and is a native of Wilmington who graduated from N.C. State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2003. She opened her practice in 2005.

The land on which Reagan’s new facility is proposed is part of a larger 300-acre parcel owned by Trask Farms of New Hanover LLC, according to the most recent New Hanover County property tax records.