Why the teardown drives everything here
Walk any street north or south of the tracks in Clarendon Hills and you will pass a lot with a silt fence, a dumpster and a fresh foundation. The village has been rebuilding its 1950s ranches into large new homes for two decades, and each of those builds carries a porta potty through the whole schedule. The unit is placed inside the construction fence at the rear corner of the lot, off the driveway line so concrete trucks and lumber deliveries can back in without hitting it.
The lots are modest in size compared with neighboring Hinsdale, so the unit often sits within a few feet of a neighbor's fence, which is why most builders here choose the deluxe flushing model with a sealed tank.
Working around the station and the school run
The village's downtown on Prospect Avenue is two blocks long and full of parents, strollers and commuters in the morning, and the BNSF crossings at Prospect and at Western Avenue drop their gates every few minutes during rush hour. Our driver avoids the crossings before nine and after four, coming in from 55th Street on the south or Ogden on the north depending on which side of the tracks the site is on. Village hall handles any placement question on a public street, so we keep units on private lots unless the contractor has already sorted that out.
Park events and the seasonal rhythm
Prospect Park, the village's main green space, hosts summer concerts, a fall festival and youth sports through the park district, and organizers rent two or three standard units and an ADA accessible unit placed at the parking lot edge. Those go in the day before and come out the morning after. The construction side of the business runs from the March thaw until the ground freezes in December, with the busiest deliveries in April and May when foundations go in.
Clarendon Hills sits on the same western route as Hinsdale and Westmont, so weekly service comes on a fixed day and the driver knows which lots have the tightest fence gates.