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About TownValet

TownValet answers the small civic questions that come up every week: which night the bins go out, whether the holiday moves it, when the street sweeper comes, and where to apply for a parking or block-party permit.

Many cities publish their collection zones, street-sweeping schedules and address lists as open data, but few people know where to find them, and the official lookups are often slow on a phone. TownValet downloads those datasets every night, matches every published address to its zones, works out holiday changes from each city’s rule, and shows the result on one fast page per city. Each fact links back to the official source, with the date we last checked it.

What we cover

14 cities so far: Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma City, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC. We add a city only when it publishes the data under terms that allow reuse, and we leave out what a city does not publish rather than guess. For example, San Francisco’s garbage is collected by a private franchisee with no open schedule data, so we cover its street cleaning only; Chicago publishes sweeping zones and permit-parking blocks but not garbage days.

Who runs it

TownValet is an independent project. It is not run by, endorsed by or affiliated with any city government, and city names are used only to say whose data a page shows. If a schedule here ever disagrees with your city’s notice, the city is right.

How it’s built

Static pages, regenerated nightly; no accounts, no cookies, no trackers. The address lookup runs in your browser (see Privacy). Data sources, licences and our accuracy checks are on the methodology page.