Porta Potty Rental in Buena Park, CA 90620

A unit on ground you own or control, like a driveway, a yard, or a fenced job site, will not normally need a City of Buena Park permit. The street is where it gets interesting, because Buena Park has written its street rules product by product.

The street permit the City publishes is for dumpsters and storage pods, not for restrooms. The City's own page says a dumpster on the street needs an encroachment permit from Public Works. It sets a fee and refundable amounts, requires the property owner to ask, bars no-parking, no-stopping, limited-time and on-street disabled spaces, and keeps containers 20 feet clear of a crosswalk. Pods follow the same process. A portable restroom is named nowhere in that scheme, so none of those figures or setbacks is ours to quote at you.

The general encroachment permit is written around work, not objects. The City describes it as needed for work in the right of way not covered by a more specific permit. Its examples are driveway approaches, sewer and water connections, and lane closures. A standing restroom is not on that list. So Buena Park publishes a priced street route for containers and no published route for a restroom. Put the question to the Engineering Services Division on 714-562-3670 first. An unpublished route may exist, so we never promise a street placement here without written confirmation.

Block parties, by contrast, are fully published. The City allows them on certain residential streets. At least 67 percent of residents on the street must support it. Police and Fire must approve the application and the location. It goes in at least 20 days ahead. The applicant supplies the traffic control devices and cleans the street afterward. Permits run only between 8:00 in the morning and 11:00 at night, and the permit fee is $310. Public Works sits at 6650 Beach Boulevard on 714-562-3500.

One private ground note. For a container, the City says no permit is needed on private property, but adds that on a home lot it must sit on a driveway or paved surface rather than on lawn or landscaping. That rule is written for containers, so it is a question to put to the City before a long front-yard placement, not a restroom requirement.

The county layer names portable toilets. Orange County Environmental Health runs a liquid waste hauling vehicles program that registers the vehicles used to collect nonhazardous liquid wastes from sources it lists as septic systems, portable toilets, boats, and grease traps. Registration is per vehicle and is invoiced each year after the first. That is our obligation rather than yours, and a fair thing to ask any supplier to confirm.