Porta Potty Rental in Pomona, CA 91766

A unit on your own Pomona lot or fenced site is a private arrangement. Three layers decide everything else, and the first one is unusual enough to plan around.

County property, and the 10,000 attendee rule. The Los Angeles County Code gives examples of what counts as county property, and the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in the City of Pomona is named as one of them. That matters. The county runs a threat assessment for any event on county property expected to draw more than 10,000 people a day. The promoter has to ask for it in writing no later than 120 days before the date. The team is drawn from fire, sheriff, emergency medical services and public health. If it finds a strong risk of harm, it calls for an event action plan at least 60 days ahead, and the event cannot be held until the plan is approved. Sanitation sits inside that review. Annual state fairs with a farming purpose are exempt, and so are events held wholly inside a theater or grandstand with assigned seats. A big concert on the same ground is not. For a Pomona event that size, your account manager will want the layout agreed months out.

The city street and the city event permit. Pomona treats an encroachment as any pole, pipeline, fence, billboard, stand or building, or any structure or object of any kind, placed in, under or over any part of the street. That open wording reaches a restroom in the roadway, so the city encroachment route is the one to use. Pomona also requires a permit for any public exhibition or public gathering. That is defined as any celebration, parade, service or assembly for any purpose at all, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, public building or parkway, and it goes to the community development director. City parks sit outside that definition and run under the park rules instead, so a park booking and a street event are two different conversations. City Hall is at 505 South Garey Avenue.

County health rules, and Pomona takes the live version. Pomona adopted the Los Angeles County public health code as its own, and took it as it stood in 2005 and as amended in the future. That rolling form matters, because the county's current chemical toilet rules apply in Pomona as the county updates them. Those rules treat a chemical toilet as a facility for limited, non residential use where a sewer hookup is not practicable. They attach a county public health permit once units stay in one spot for more than three days. Work already covered by California job safety rules is carved out. For food events, Los Angeles County Public Health sets one handwashing sink for every four toilets, one toilet for each 15 food workers within 200 feet of each booth with its own warm water sink, and says food handler toilets are not to be shared with the public, so a Pomona event with vendors buys two separate groups of units. Organizer applications are due 30 days ahead and anything inside 14 calendar days is late, with a surcharge set as a share of the permit fee. The county community events page has the detail and the program line is 626-430-5320.

Your account manager will tell you which of the three layers your Pomona site actually sits under.