Porta Potty Rental in Collierville, TN 38017

For a unit on private property in Collierville, no. Your own lot, driveway or fenced job site needs nothing from the Town.

Job sites: keep the unit inside your property line and clear of the public sidewalk. Where the job already carries a building permit, the restroom is part of your site setup.

Streets, alleys and sidewalks: Collierville publishes no obstruction or encroachment route for placing an object in the right of way, and its code does bar occupying a street, alley, sidewalk or right of way for storing or exhibiting goods. Anything standing in a Town roadway is a conversation with the Town rather than a form, so your account manager will make that call and we never promise a street placement.

Events split into two classes, and the one you are in decides who you talk to. A Class I event uses Town property or needs specialized Town services such as traffic control or street closures, and that needs a permit from the Special Events Committee, with the application going to Parks and Recreation on 901-457-2777 at least 60 days ahead. A Class II event sits on private property with no Town services, and that means an Outdoor Event Questionnaire to the Planning Division on 901-457-2360, also 60 days ahead.

Above a few hundred people the approval becomes a board decision rather than a counter transaction. A larger outdoor event needs a Conditional Use Permit from the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, which costs $300 and takes roughly 60 days through the Planning Commission and the Board. The figures are on the Town's outdoor special event page.

Read the trigger carefully, because the Town gives it two ways. Its policy summary puts the threshold at more than 250 people or a cumulative total of more than 500 people across a calendar year, while its own questionnaire guidance says the permit could be triggered above 200 people including staff and volunteers. Plan on the lower figure and let the Planning Division confirm which applies to your event. The annual running total is the part people miss: a venue that has already hosted several gatherings this year may be closer to the threshold than your single guest list suggests.

Several categories are usually exempt from that board permit, among them events in approved permanent buildings such as churches and conference centers, company and non-profit picnics, neighborhood gatherings run by a property owners' association for its members, and events held entirely on state or Shelby County ground with no effect beyond the site.

Three further conditions to budget time for. The property owner has to consent and sign the questionnaire. The sponsor is asked to carry general liability insurance naming the Town as an additional insured and to sign the Town's waiver and indemnity form. And a tent over 400 square feet needs its own permit from the Chief of Fire Prevention on 901-457-2482, with the Fire Marshal's office at 1251 Peterson Lake.