An accessible unit is the right call any time the public is invited — ticketed events, weddings, street festivals, public meetings, campus programs — and on job sites where a worker or inspector may need one. Federal…

An accessible unit is the right call any time the public is invited — ticketed events, weddings, street festivals, public meetings, campus programs — and on job sites where a worker or inspector may need one. Federal accessibility standards generally call for at least 5% of single-user portable toilets on a site to be accessible, with a minimum of one, and they are meant to be clustered with the standard units rather than parked off by themselves. The practical rule we plan to: one accessible unit per restroom bank, not one per event. A 400-guest wedding in the Rose Garden with a single restroom cluster needs one; a festival on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen with three separate banks needs three. The trade-off is honest — an accessible unit takes up noticeably more footprint and costs more than a standard unit, and it will not raise your total capacity much because it serves one person at a time. What it does is keep every guest inside the same experience instead of sending someone to look for a building.
San Jose ground is the variable that decides where the unit actually lands. An accessible restroom only works if the approach works, which means a stable route roughly 36 inches wide from accessible parking or the main path to the door, and a pad that does not slope. Decomposed granite paths along Guadalupe River Park & Gardens are usually firm enough but tend to crown and drain to one side, so we look for a flat shoulder rather than the trail center. The lawns and orchard rows at Emma Prusch Farm Park go soft after irrigation, so we plan the set for the compacted service road edge. Hillside sites in Almaden Valley and the upper approaches near Alum Rock Park are the most common place a requested spot has to move, because a graded driveway apron is often the only truly level surface. Parking-lot events near PayPal Park, SJSU, and the tech campuses of North San Jose are the easiest of all — asphalt with striped accessible stalls already in place, so the unit goes at the head of the aisle where the route already exists.
Quantity comes out of headcount, hours, and whether alcohol is served, and it is calculated the same way for accessible units as for the rest of the bank. Tell us 250 guests for six hours with a bar in Japantown, or a 40-person crew running ten-hour days in Berryessa, and we come back with a unit count, a placement note per location, and a service schedule. For events longer than about six hours we recommend a mid-event service visit, and it matters more on the accessible unit than any other — it is the one guests cannot substitute. Multi-bank sites in Evergreen, Cambrian Park, and Alviso get their accessible units mapped near the accessible route on the plan you submit for permitting, so the drawing you hand to the inspector matches what is on the ground.
Delivery is committed to a window, not a vague day, because on a real load-in the restroom truck is competing with staging, rental tables, and generators for the same gate. Give us your load-in time and the gate or lot we should use, and the accessible units go in early while there is still turning room. If the requested spot fails on grade or firmness once the driver is looking at it, the crew calls you before setting rather than leaving a unit nobody can use. Call (619) 604-0688 to walk the scope; pricing is discussed after we know the site, and the exact figure is confirmed on a free on-site visit for larger San Jose events.
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