Porta Potty Rental in Centerville, OH 45458

On private ground, a driveway, a yard, a fenced site or a parking lot, a portable toilet in Centerville needs no City permit. The complications here are about who owns the ground you are standing on, and there are three different answers.

The City street, and a rule that surprises people. Centerville's code creates what it calls a revocable street privilege, meaning an authorized private right to use a special part of a City street, alley or way, separate from the general public's use of it. The City Manager grants and supervises those privileges and may require one to be discontinued or modified where public safety demands. The code also makes it unlawful to establish or maintain an unauthorized private use of a public street, alley or way.

Only the abutting owner can apply. The same chapter states that any owner of a lot or parcel of real estate may apply for a revocable street privilege abutting that lot or parcel. That is narrower than it sounds: a contractor, an event sponsor or a rental supplier cannot file the application, so the property owner has to be the one who asks. Plan that into your timeline.

Know where the right of way actually runs. The City's own right of way guidance explains that a typical Centerville residential street sits on a fifty-foot right of way, with the street and curb taking twenty-eight feet and the remaining eleven feet on each side used for sidewalks, utilities, tree lawns and signs. Where there is no sidewalk, the City says to measure ten feet back from the curb to find the right of way line. In other words, the strip of grass in front of many Centerville houses is City ground rather than yours, which is exactly where people assume a unit can go.

Which office to call. Public Works handles right of way permits for work in an easement or the public right of way, on 937-428-4782 from 7970 S Suburban Road. The City Manager's Office handles permits for parades, solicitors, mobile food vendors and street or event closures, and the Municipal Building at 100 W Spring Valley Road is on 937-433-7151. Planning and Zoning can be reached on 937-428-4760.

Parks are not the City's at all. The Centerville-Washington Park District is a separate body created in 1959 and holds more than a thousand acres across some fifty parks, with its office at Activity Center Park on North Main Street and a number of 937-433-5155. A park event here is agreed with the district, not with City Hall, so start there rather than losing a week at the wrong counter.

Who may empty the unit, and this one favors you. Ohio's rules are explicit: the owner of a portable toilet must have a registered septage hauler remove the contents before capacity is exceeded, and portable toilets must be built watertight and structurally sound, prevent spillage in transport and allow access for removal of the contents. Because the unit on your site is ours, that duty sits with us. The state rules also allow a local health board to permit portable toilets and set conditions, so an unusual placement may still be worth a call.

Not sure whose ground you are on? Put the address to your account manager and we will work it out before delivery.