On your own driveway, parking lot or fenced work area, a container needs no City permit in Loves Park. That is the simple case and it covers almost every job delivered here.
The public right-of-way is the strict case. Loves Park defines an encroachment as any structure or object of any kind placed, located or maintained in, on, under or over any part of the roadway right-of-way, and then makes it unlawful to place or keep one there. It also bars using any street, alley, sidewalk or parkway for the storage of goods. A container is an object of some kind in anybody's reading, and no application, fee schedule or permit route is attached to that section. The fine runs from $5.00 to $500.00 per offence with each day counted separately, and that is set out in the City's own code library.
The one permit the street chapter does create is for cutting pavement and excavating, which is not what a container does. So the practical answer in Loves Park is to plan a private placement. Tight lots, shared drives and corner properties are worth a conversation before the order goes in.
We have not been able to open Winnebago County's own position on waste hauler requirements, so we make no claim either way about a county step, and your account manager checks it before the order is confirmed.
For anything to do with the construction permit itself, Loves Park City Hall is at 100 Heart Boulevard and the published number is 815-654-5030, with hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, listed on the City's contact page. Your account manager will find the right department and tell you what the Building Department expects to see.