Tualatin Council Upholds Staff on Honeybucket Yard, Rules Portable‑toilet Operations Align With Solid‑waste Use

Tualatin City Council on Sept. 22 affirmed a staff code interpretation that classified Honeybucket's portable‑toilet rental yard at 18805 Southwest 100th and Eighth Avenue as a solid‑waste treatment and recycling use rather than a wholesale sales use, a determination that makes the existing operations prohibited in the city's Light Manufacturing (ML) planning district.

Staff Associate Planner Madeline Nelson told council the site spans three tax lots totaling 3.8 acres and that staff found the business's essential activities include collection, temporary on‑site storage, washing and related handling of portable toilets — activities that align with the Tualatin Development Code (TDC) use category for solid‑waste treatment and recycling. Nelson said pumping is listed in the code's example language and that the rental operation's on‑site collection and temporary storage meant those activities could not be treated as merely accessory to a wholesale rental…