20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to the Charleston metro area and the Lowcountry, including Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek and Hanahan.
Charleston was founded in 1670 and is the seat of Charleston County, at the center of a tri-county Lowcountry region that also reaches into Berkeley and Dorchester counties. Deliveries reach Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton, Georgetown, Beaufort, Williamsburg and Orangeburg counties. Delivery areas include South of Broad, Harleston Village, Ansonborough, the French Quarter, Radcliffeborough, Cannonborough-Elliotborough, Mazyck-Wraggborough, the Eastside, the Westside, Hampton Park Terrace, Wagener Terrace, North Central, Byrnes Downs, Avondale, South Windermere, Riverland Terrace, Harbor View, Daniel Island, Cainhoy and Johns Island.
Charleston is a three-county city, and the rule that governs your container is the rule belonging to whoever issues your permit. Inside the city limits, the City of Charleston Zoning Ordinance treats a shipping container used for on-site storage in a residential district as a portable storage unit with its own size, count, placement and duration limits, and treats outdoor storage of three or more containers as a separate conditional land use restricted to the LI and HI industrial districts. In unincorporated Charleston County a container is reviewed under the county's Zoning and Land Development Regulations, which allow permanent storage units only in a named list of agricultural, rural, commercial and industrial districts and require a zoning permit and screening. Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek, Hanahan and each island town set their own rules again.
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A steel container can hold records, generators, tools, equipment and other items you could not replace, dry and locked in one place. Inside the city limits, Charleston's zoning ordinance requires portable storage units to be removed immediately when a tropical storm warning or hurricane watch is issued, so a temporary box on a driveway cannot stay through a storm.
Trucking, transloading and warehousing around the Charleston terminals need ground space. An owned container provides storage on a drayage or transload operation's own yard. If you are stacking three or more containers outdoors, the city treats that as a defined land use with its own district and buffer rules, so plan the yard before the boxes arrive.
The manufacturing corridor from Boeing in North Charleston out to Volvo in Ridgeville, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Bosch in Ladson and Nucor in Huger uses its floor space for production. A container can hold tooling, packaging, spare parts and staged material at the fence line.
Restoration work on the peninsula and in the older West Ashley and James Island neighborhoods leaves little room to stage material. A container can keep salvaged millwork, heart pine, cabinetry and new material out of the weather and out of the street. Inside the city limits the portable storage unit rules set size, count, placement and duration limits, and the Old and Historic District adds review by the Board of Architectural Review on top. Call the Zoning Division before booking a delivery.
On Johns Island, Wadmalaw, Sullivan's, Isle of Palms, Folly and Kiawah, a container can hold boat gear, outboards, crab traps, kayaks, mowers and hurricane shutters. Steel holds up to salt air when the paint is kept up. Each of those places is its own jurisdiction with its own rules, which is the first thing to check.
Colleton, Dorchester, Berkeley and the rural end of Charleston County are working land. A container can hold feed, seed, chemicals, irrigation parts, chainsaws, tractor implements and deer camp gear out at the field, dry and locked. Unincorporated Charleston County allows permanent storage units as an accessory use in its agricultural and several of its rural, commercial and industrial districts, subject to a zoning permit and screening.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact the City of Charleston Department of Planning, Preservation and Sustainability, Zoning Division, 2 George Street, Suite 3100, Charleston SC 29401, phone (843) 724-3765, for zoning determinations. Building permits go through the City of Charleston Permit Center on the ground floor at 2 George Street, phone (843) 577-5550, permits@charleston-sc.gov. If the address is in unincorporated Charleston County rather than the city, call Charleston County Zoning and Planning at (843) 202-7200. Berkeley County Planning and Zoning is (843) 719-4095 and Dorchester County Planning and Zoning is (843) 832-0020.
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.