City commissioners aren’t wild about the idea of potty permits.
At their weekly meeting, commissioners dropped some ideas for new regulations governing portable toilets, but did take some action aimed at how long residents near Memorial Stadium can keep the toilets in their yards.
“It appears to me that we have opened up a can of worms with this,” Mayor Mike Amyx said.
Commissioners were asked to create regulations that would require portable toilets to be removed from yards following each KU home football game. The portable toilets near the stadium have increased in recent years as tailgating activities have grown in the Oread Neighborhood next to the stadium.
But the proposed ordinance was going to require many typical portable toilet owners – everybody from auctioneers to the Girl Scout camp — to go through a formal permit process to place them in the city.
Commissioners directed staff members to rewrite the ordinance so it only applied to residentially zoned property and would include specific exemptions for some uses, like the Girl Scout camp.
The new regulations, though, would require residents near the stadium to have the portable toilets removed by the Monday following a KU home football game. Currently, many residents who sell parking spaces in the neighborhood allow the toilets to stay on site for the entire season.
Commissioners said they perhaps would create an exception to the new rule for KU home football games that are on back-to-back weeks.
Comments
cheeseburger 2 years, 9 months ago
Way to go, Candice! Now a reasonable alternative to peeing and pooping in bushes and alleyways is going to become even more costly for those who provide the toilets. Sure wish there was a way to assess these extra costs to Candice Davis!
just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 2 years, 9 months ago
Every resident that sells parking has at least one indoor toilet. It seems a relatively small cost of doing business to let those you rent parking space to to use the already existing indoor toilet(s).
Slowponder 2 years, 9 months ago
The ordinance has an exception for university, federal, state and school property, so the portable toilets can remain on LHS and FSH.
somedude20 2 years, 9 months ago
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Agnostick 2 years, 9 months ago
Assault On A Port-A-Potty by jaytpacific21
porta potty explosion!!! by pojoitis
Agnostick 2 years, 9 months ago
R/C Bomb vs Porta Potty by goobernoodles
trinity 2 years, 9 months ago
and so this would also exempt say when an auctioneer holds a sale at a residence, right? they often bring port a pots to those...
consumer1 2 years, 9 months ago
I still say just line em up on a flat bed trailor and charge a dollar a squat and then drive away at the end of it all with your pockets bulging with dollar bills. If I had an 18 foot trailor like many of the farmers do, I would rent em and sell their use.
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