A driveway, a yard or a fenced job site is private property, and no permit attaches to a container there. That is the normal placement in Stonecrest and the one we recommend.
The licensing picture is where Stonecrest is genuinely different, and we are going to set out both sides rather than pick the one that suits us.
On one side, DeKalb County states plainly on its own commercial service page that commercial establishments located in unincorporated DeKalb County, and in cities operating under an intergovernmental agreement with the county, are required to use county-provided commercial solid waste services, and that private haulers are not permitted. Stonecrest is one of the cities operating under such an agreement. Stonecrest's own rules point the same way in one place, making it unlawful for anyone not licensed by the city to collect and haul refuse in areas where collection is maintained by contract with DeKalb County.
On the other side, the city's rules never create the city license they refer to. The only licensing route the chapter actually sets out is the county's, and the county's license class is defined narrowly. In the city's own words, a commercial sanitation firm means any person engaged in the business of operating a sanitary compactor, and it is that firm which needs the county license. The chapter then defines compactor containers, compactor front loader containers and compactor roll-off containers, all of them machines with a mechanical compacting system. It defines no plain open-top construction container at all.
So the honest answer is that the two provisions do not resolve against each other, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is clear is the distinction that matters to most callers. The county's rule is written against commercial establishments arranging commercial solid waste service. A homeowner putting a container on their own driveway for a kitchen renovation is not a commercial establishment arranging commercial waste service, and residential renovation work has never been the subject of that rule.
If you are a commercial establishment in Stonecrest, raise it with your account manager at the start. We will tell you where the position stands for your specific site before anything is delivered, and if the county route is the right answer for your job we will say so.
One further point that helps you. The city's rules say a commercial establishment that contracts with a firm licensed to operate a stationary compactor service is not required to pay a county sanitary assessment while it uses that service, provided no additional service is supplied. That is a real saving and it is worth checking against your current bill.
Loads must also be secured. Operating a vehicle with a load that is not adequately secured against material dropping or shifting onto the roadway is an offense here, which is why every pull is tarped.