Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in Greenfield Park?
In your driveway or on your lot: no municipal permit is provided for a temporary dumpster placed entirely on private land. We word it carefully, because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision and not from a written confirmation: in the borough's planning by-law GP-2025-170, the word “conteneur” serves only the permanent container of a building, temporary job-site use, and the definition in section 40, 51° — “a closed container intended exclusively for storing waste between collection operations”. No certificate of authorization covers placing a temporary dumpster. On the street, the sidewalk, a bike path or the municipal right-of-way it is the opposite: a permit is required and priced by the day. In doubt about your case? Planning department, dau.informations@longueuil.quebec or 450 463-7311.
What does the permit cost if the dumpster has to go on the street?
The City of Longueuil charges $104 in analysis fees, then a daily rate that depends on what is occupied: $34 a day on a traffic lane other than a main artery and $46 on a main artery — both for an occupancy of 3 m or less, more above that — $66 on a sidewalk, a back-of-sidewalk strip or a street right-of-way, $79 on an off-street bike path and $92 in a park or green space. What decides the column is the speed posted in front of the address: “a main artery is any traffic lane where the maximum authorized speed limit is 50 km/h or more”. Yet since January 1, 2026, the limit is 30 km/h in Longueuil's residential neighbourhoods, and sign replacement is spread over several months. No municipal source links the two, so we give the rule and both amounts, never a single figure. Occupying public property without a permit costs $300 to $1,000 (individual) or $600 to $2,000 (corporation), each day being a separate offence. Applications go to reglementation@longueuil.quebec.
Is Greenfield Park a city?
No — and that changes concrete things. “This sector corresponds to the former Ville de Greenfield Park, founded in 1911 and merged with the Ville de Longueuil in 2002, becoming a borough”, the city writes. The borough on its own forms electoral district no. 11, with 12,170 electors: “this district includes the entirety of the borough of Greenfield Park”. For a job site the consequence is simple: the public-domain occupancy permit, the fees, noise, nuisances, winter parking, the drop-off centres and the collections are City of Longueuil by-laws, identical across the three boroughs; planning, on the other hand, belongs to Greenfield Park — by-law GP-2025-170, in force since July 21, 2025.
Is there a drop-off centre in Greenfield Park?
No. None of the network's three drop-off centres is in the borough: Marie-Victorin is at 1140 boulevard Marie-Victorin, Payer at 5050 rue Ramsay — “the main entrance is on rue Ramsay […] the exit is by boulevard Payer” — and the third is in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. Access is free on presentation of a driver's licence and the vehicle registration, but “each residential address is entitled to 12 free visits per year” and each visit is capped at under 2.5 m³. A full year's quota is therefore worth 30 m³, about 39 cubic yards: roughly one 40 yard dumpster, once a year, unloaded by hand, in a vehicle of at most 7.5 m including the trailer and with no tipping bed. And “waste of commercial origin is not accepted at any of our drop-off centres”.
My lane is narrow and lined with trees: where will the dumpster go?
Where width, slope and roots allow — and that gets decided on the phone, not in the driveway. An access lane serving a single space is 2.5 m to 6 m wide, its slope may reach 10%, and the end of the lane near the sidewalk is taken by a visibility triangle 3 m per side where “no object or vegetation may exceed 1 m in height”. Every tree to be kept also opens a critical root zone, measured as a diameter — the trunk diameter at breast height multiplied by 10, or the crown's projection, never less than 1.5 m — inside which “storing materials, debris or machinery” is prohibited. With the highest canopy index in Longueuil (21%, tied with Vieux-Longueuil) and “narrow streets lined with mature trees” in the faubourg, this is not theoretical. The good news: the urban plan also notes the depth of the faubourg's lots — when the driveway is taken, the back yard is often the answer.
I manage an apartment building: what does the by-law say in Greenfield Park?
Two things, and they must not be mixed up. To clear out a renovation there is no municipal route: bulky waste collection “is limited to residential service and is not intended for businesses, industries and institutions”, the drop-off centres refuse commercially sourced material, and the city warns that “collection of containers at residential buildings does not follow the same calendar as bins”. That is the job-site dumpster, and we deliver it. For the building's permanent container, the borough by-law is precise: at 24 dwellings or fewer, outdoor container storage is allowed only in the partially buried type; from 25 dwellings, it must be indoors; the screening enclosure runs 1.8 m to 2.5 m with a door of at least 3 m; and a building built before October 1, 2008 with 4 dwellings or more may place it 1 m from a street line and encroach on a required parking space. Useful when half the borough's rental stock predates 1971.
How late can work go on in Greenfield Park?
Until 7 p.m. Longueuil's nuisance by-law prohibits “between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.” excavation, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or demolition work “using a mechanical ram, machinery, a tool or any other noisy thing”. Careful: the city's plain-language “Bruit” page says “particularly between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.” — the by-law is what governs, and it says 7 p.m. A night-work permit exists, at $103, with a letter to area residents at least 14 days in advance. The fine for breaching the hours runs from $130 to $1,000 for an individual. Our deliveries and pickups are planned inside that window.
Will the dumpster damage my driveway?
It is the question we hear most, and it comes up here because the by-law lists what may cover a parking area, an access lane or a manoeuvring area: cellular systems in concrete or approved plastic, concrete or stone pavers, poured concrete, flagstone, poured or recycled rubber, asphalt or any other bituminous mix — and none of those surfaces likes a point load. Every one of our dumpsters arrives fitted with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the surface. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip, for full protection: lay four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives.
Do you answer in English in Greenfield Park?
Yes, and the borough itself works that way. Greenfield Park holds a recognition obtained under section 12 of the Charter of Ville de Longueuil and section 29.1 of the Charter of the French language, and its council adopted on January 9, 2023 a resolution on the maintenance of that recognition. In practice, its public notices appear in both languages: on July 24, 2026, the same minor exemption request was posted the same day in French and in English. So this page exists in English too, and our office and our drivers answer in both languages.