Franklin County, KY Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

Subsection (J) of § 155.333, Off-Street Parking, Facility Design Standards, is the Fiscal Court's dumpster rule. It has two physical requirements. First, a dumpster must be located no less than ten feet from any property line, measured to the line itself, not to a building. Second, it must be screened on three sides, which leaves one side open for the collection truck.

The screen is defined by material. It must consist of stone, brick, wood or plant material. Chain link fencing is not permitted for use as a screen, even with slats, because the text names it as excluded without qualification. If plants are the screen, they should be planted so as to reach the required height in one year, and the code recommends planting mature plants. The subsection prints no height number for the screen. Plants which die must be promptly replaced, so the screening duty continues after installation and a dead hedge leaves the dumpster out of compliance.

Because the rule sits in the parking facility standards, it applies where a parking lot is laid out and built. The same section requires a landscape buffer when parking abuts residentially used or zoned property, either a strip of evergreen trees at least six feet tall at time of planting or a privacy fence. Section 155.339(D) separately requires auto and equipment sales lots to comply with the screening requirements described in § 155.333, so a dealership lot's dumpster follows the same ten-foot and three-side standard.

The excerpt does not distinguish between a permanent commercial container and a temporary roll-off, and the code read for this page prints no permit, hauler or pickup-schedule requirement for dumpsters in Chapter 155. Solid waste collection obligations sit in a different part of the county code, Chapter 50. Frankfort has its own code and is not covered by this rule.