Is a permit required for a dumpster in Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce?
On private land, no: “no permit is necessary”, writes the borough, for residential and commercial alike — and it publishes no placement condition, where at least eight other boroughs do. As soon as the box spills onto the roadway, the lane or the sidewalk, yes: $45 to issue with no review fee, a daily rate, an online application and five business days of processing. A call to 514 708-2424 often saves you the errand: most of the time the spot turns up on the property.
What does a week of dumpster cost in the street rather than the lane?
Five days in front of a plex, on less than 49 m² of roadway: $45 + 5 × $67, so $380 in municipal fees taxes included, over and above the rental. The same five days in the lane, on condition you stay off the sidewalk and the roadway: $325. The lane costs $11 a day less here, whereas in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal it is the lane that costs more than the street. A paid parking space adds $40 or $45 a day, plus $98 to hood the first meter.
Can a dumpster be left on Avenue Monkland or on Décarie?
It can, but it is the priciest choice. Both are entered on the city's arterial network, as are Avenue Somerled, Avenue Victoria, Chemin Queen-Mary and Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges: obstructing a lane there costs $78 a day instead of $41 on a local street, and a full closure, $388 a day. On a commercial artery, the back lane or a shop's own yard almost always works out cheaper, and it takes nothing away from the truck's room to manoeuvre.
At what hours can the delivery and the pickup take place?
The bylaw frames the work and names material deliveries expressly: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. That 10 a.m. weekend start is among the latest on the island: no truck at 6:30 in a Village Monkland lane, but work allowed on Sunday, which several boroughs forbid. We wedge the delivery inside that window.
Does the truck get through the borough's lanes?
Often, though not everywhere, and it gets checked lane by lane. At the 2019 municipal inspection, the 214 segments on record showed a median width of 4.3 m, and 173 of them measured less than 5 m — the tightest, 2.4 m. Our truck takes up about 2.5 m and has to lift the box straight up. Add the occupancy permit at $56 a day and, in a landscaped lane, street furniture that can bar the way: we look at yours before confirming.
Is the Côte-des-Neiges ecocentre enough for a renovation?
For a car trunk, yes; for a job site, rarely. Residents are entitled to 12 m³ free a year, then $31 for every extra cubic metre, and no more than 15 passages in the year — the unlimited-visit exception holds at LaSalle and Saint-Laurent only. Everything comes off by hand, with no tipping trailer, behind a rig under 11 m (7.4 m for a cube van). A construction business domiciled on the island is let in at $31 the cubic metre: the equivalent of a 20-yard, 15.3 m³, comes to nearly $474 before a single round trip is counted.
Which size for a plex, and how does the $50 credit work?
The 20-yard covers the majority of plex renovations — kitchen, bathroom, plaster — and the yardstick holds on the ground: about the size of a Dodge Caravan. The 10-yard? A 20-yard filled halfway — same ground taken, less height, nothing gained in a short driveway. Seven days come with the rental. As for the $50 Libération Express credit, it is earned when the dumpster is freed up inside 48 hours from the drop-off. Offer valid during the high season (March to October); the credit lands back on the credit card, or comes off the extras.
