CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – When nature calls there will soon be a new place to go and do your business in Cleveland.
Robin Riley of Cleveland can relate, “When you gotta go, you gotta go.”
Four Portland Loo portable toilets, an upgrade to what’s considered a normal porta potty, will be placed in three locations around Cleveland. The city’s Planning Commission approved the project “conditionally” on Friday.
Tuck Milligan temporarily living in downtown Cleveland tells 19 News, “I think it’s a good idea to have public facilities if people need them. European cities have public facilities everywhere and it’s a convenience, rather than trying to find a corner somewhere.”free-standing, gender-neutral public restroom equipped with a sink for hand washing. It is also wheelchair—and stroller-accessible and has a changing table. These are welcome
The Portland Loo is a free-standing, gender-neutral public restroom equipped with a sink for hand washing. It is also wheelchair—and stroller-accessible and has a changing table. These are welcome amenities in a city where sports and events fuel the nightlife and attract plenty of visitors.
Robin Riley of Cleveland says it’s a great idea, “I mean sometimes you gotta go and some businesses won’t let you go unless you’re purchasing something.”
The Cleveland locations will include two portable toilets in Canal Basin Park in the Flats, one on Payne Avenue near the Virgil E. Brown building, as well as one in Perk Plaza downtown.
The Portland Loo was designed in Portland, Oregon back in 2008 in the wake of the 2008 recession, and it’s become a public solution nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic.,
Josh Clark who lives in the city tells 19 News, “I say it’s probably a good idea to give people, especially the homeless an option to use them if they have to – they’re not going on the streets or anything like that.”
The Planning Commission wants to make sure the portable facilities integrate into the environment.
Some people who declined an interview did say they have concerns that the portable toilets will attract illegal activity like prostitution or drug use.
However, the makers of the Portland Loo say blue lights are installed so that drug users are unable to find a vein as a means to discourage drug activity.
The Portland Loos are already stored at the Harbor Maintenance Garage and are expected to be installed in the near future.
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