Porta Potty Rental in Wauwatosa, WI 53213

On private Wauwatosa property, a unit for your own work needs no city permit. Three rules are worth reading first.

The event permit exemption, and why sanitation decides it: Wauwatosa requires a special event permit for any event inside the city, and the city administrator holds the exclusive authority to decide whether a particular event needs one. The exemption is the interesting part. An event wholly contained on public or private property is outside the permit only if the ground is suited to it, there is an appropriate area for fire protection, there is street or highway access, the event creates no greater use of public facilities than a normal day, and there are appropriate sanitation facilities. In other words, providing adequate restrooms is one of the conditions that keeps a Wauwatosa event out of the permit process rather than a condition of getting through it. The city also says that legal parking spaces do not count toward whether an event is wholly contained.

Street placement: Wauwatosa requires a street occupancy permit, and its wording is drafted around trailers. It is unlawful to park a trailer on any public street or right-of-way in the city without one, and the code defines a trailer as a wheeled non-motorized vehicle or assembly. A skid-mounted stall is not a trailer under that definition, while a restroom trailer plainly is. The city separately requires a sidewalk cafe permit for right-of-way use and refers elsewhere to a street use permit or other express authorization.

Milwaukee County ground: where a Wauwatosa site touches a county public way, the County requires a permit from its director of public works before anyone may erect, place, or store any material, equipment, shed, fence, or other structure in the public way. Two details are worth quoting. Occupying the public way without that permit doubles the fee, and paying double does not excuse compliance. A refund on an unused permit is charged at 20 percent with a minimum processing fee. The County's applicant class is the property owner, a facility owner, or their contractor, so an outside event organizer is not within it.

A chapter that is empty, and that is the answer: Wauwatosa's health title carries a privies chapter that is reserved, with nothing written in it, and its list of adopted state administrative codes runs to eight items covering pools, camps, campgrounds, lodging, local agents, retail food, pool design, and rabies. The private sewage chapter is not one of them. Wauwatosa has no local privy or portable restroom standard of its own.

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