20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to Columbia and the Midlands, including Irmo, Lexington, Cayce, West Columbia and Forest Acres.
Columbia is South Carolina's capital and the seat of Richland County, sitting at the center of the state where the Broad and Saluda rivers meet to form the Congaree, with city limits that extend across the river into Lexington County. Deliveries reach Richland, Lexington, Kershaw, Fairfield, Calhoun, Newberry, Sumter, Orangeburg and Saluda counties. Delivery areas include Shandon, Rosewood, Five Points, the Congaree Vista, Olympia, Granby, Elmwood Park, Cottontown, Earlewood, Melrose Heights, Wales Garden, Heathwood, Hollywood-Rose Hill, Arsenal Hill, Waverly, Eau Claire, Kilbourne Park, Lake Katherine, Sherwood Forest and Harbison.
Columbia repealed its old planning and zoning chapter and replaced it with a Unified Development Ordinance, which the city implemented alongside a new official zoning map on August 30, 2021. The UDO addresses portable shipping containers directly, as a temporary use with standards on size, placement, duration and frequency, and it applies those standards regardless of which zoning district the container sits in. Outside the city limits, unincorporated Richland County is governed by the county's land development code and Lexington County by its own, and Irmo, Cayce, West Columbia, Forest Acres, Lexington and Blythewood each administer their own ordinances.
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Fort Jackson, an Army training installation in Columbia, and McEntire Joint National Guard Base at Eastover have contractors, suppliers and support businesses nearby. A container is ground-level and lockable, and it can be moved when a contract moves.
Student housing in Columbia turns over on an academic calendar. Around the University of South Carolina, Benedict and Allen, a container can hold furniture, mattresses and move-in supplies through the summer. Inside the city limits, containers are treated as a temporary use with a thirty day clock, so a semester-long placement needs a zoning check.
Construction in the Midlands ranges from the Blythewood automotive corridor to infill across Richland and Lexington counties. A container can keep tools, copper, fixtures and materials locked on the job.
Manufacturing and distribution operations along Interstate 26 and Interstate 77 can use a container or a row of them for seasonal overflow at the dock. On nonresidential ground the city asks for six months between the removal of one container and the placement of the next on the same site.
Around Lake Murray, out toward Chapin, Gilbert, Hopkins and Eastover, a container can hold boat gear, dock parts, mowers, tractor implements, feed and hunting equipment. Rural Lexington and Richland county land follows county rules rather than the city's.
A container can hold chairs, sound equipment, seasonal programming supplies and donated goods for congregations, charter schools and nonprofits, which keeps interior space free for people.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact the City of Columbia Planning and Development Services, Zoning Division, 1401 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Columbia SC 29201, phone (803) 545-3333, [email protected], for zoning determinations. Residential permitting questions go to the Development Center residential coordinator at (803) 545-3420 and commercial questions to (803) 545-3483. If the address is in unincorporated Richland County, call Richland County Planning and Development Services, Zoning Office, first floor of the county administration building at 2020 Hampton Street, phone (803) 576-2190.
Containers are available in several grades, from used wind and water tight to one-trip.
Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.