10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Kirkland

No by-law found requires one for the dumpster itself, placed entirely on your land — and the town still asks to be called. Its “Home renovations” page puts it plainly: “If the use of a dumpster is required during the work, please contact the urban planning department to find out the applicable requirements.” Those requirements are not spelled out in any published document; the call goes to 514 694-4100, or in writing to urbanisme@ville.kirkland.qc.ca. The negative check is complete: the word “conteneur” appears in neither zoning by-law 90-58, nor permit by-law 90-61, nor construction by-law 90-60, nor nuisance by-law 2013-54; the closed list of certificates of authorization provides for none; and the 2026 fee by-law prices nothing of the kind. The job site, however, needs a permit from $300 of expenditures.

No, not without prior written authorization — and Kirkland has no public-domain occupancy by-law setting one up for a dumpster. The only published door is the director's “consent”: “All work, structures or installations in or on a street or sidewalk of the town […] are subject to obtaining prior authorization from the director”, who “may accept or refuse” (by-law 2013-55, s. 21.1 and 21.2). Add the construction by-law — no one may “erect or place a structure, works or materials” on public property “without first obtaining written authorization” (90-60, s. 2.5 e) — and the nuisance by-law, which makes a nuisance of “leaving any object or material on the public roadway” (s. 11 o). Parking itself is capped at four consecutive hours on the same stretch of street, all year. So we deliver in the driveway.

Because the zoning by-law requires it. Section 5.6 c) states that “every tree, whatever its size, must be protected during excavation, construction or landscaping work liable to damage it, or carried out near the tree”, and lists among the mandatory measures “laying ground protection everywhere vehicles or machinery travel or any material is stored (protective rubber mats or plywood at least ¾ in. thick)”. The “Excavation work” page repeats it in millimetres: 19 mm. On a planted lot, that covers just about every driveway. The PROTEC-O-SOL system — built-in planks that spread the load — comes with every dumpster: nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. The same section requires a rigid fence at least 1.2 m high, 1.2 m from the trunk, where “no activity may take place”: that is what decides the box's exact spot.

That is the Kirkland question. Zoning caps the combined width of the driveway entrance or entrances at 7.0 metres per street, allows only one on a lot less than 21.0 metres wide at the front, and makes the garage mandatory: “every single, two or three family dwelling (or residential building) must have a garage or indoor parking with an effective capacity of at least one (1) space per dwelling unit”, and “removing a garage is prohibited” (s. 10.6 c and d). What is missing here is length, not height: a 10 yard box is a 20 yard box filled halfway — same footprint, simply lower. A parking space measures at least 2.5 m by 6.0 m: that is the size to picture when we choose the spot on the phone.

For a few items, yes. For a job site, no. It opens “every Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon” from May to October and “the first Saturday of the month, 9 a.m. to noon” from November to April — three hours a week in summer, three hours a month in winter — with a “maximum quantity to respect: 2 m³ / drop-off”, loaded and unloaded by hand. The by-law adds up drop-offs at the yard and home collections and caps the total at six services a year, that is 12 m³ for twelve months. Asphalt and asphalt shingles are banned there, as they are at home collection. A 10 yard dumpster alone holds 7.6 m³; a 20 yard, 15.3 m³; a 40 yard, 30.6 m³. Information: public works, 514 630-2727.

No, and the town says so twice. The by-law: bulky items and recoverable construction waste intended for the service “may not come from work carried out by construction companies” and the service “is offered to dwellings only” (GEN-2020-53, s. 18). The “Bulky items” page: “This service is not available to contractors doing work at a resident's home.” For businesses and industry, section 4 is blunter still — “municipal waste collection service is not provided to establishments in the ICI category”, and “the owner of an establishment that is not served must provide, at their own expense, for the disposal of waste”. Residential buildings with nine dwellings or more may also choose to provide for themselves. That is exactly what a dumpster does.

Within the window the nuisance by-law leaves the neighbourhood. A construction, renovation or demolition site within 150 metres of a building used for lodging may only work “between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday” (s. 7.5). Loading and unloading materials is prohibited “between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. the next day” where the operation is liable to disturb the peace (s. 7.4) — and the owner of the land who consents to a noisy vehicle parking within 100 metres of a dwelling “contravenes this by-law in the same way” as the vehicle's owner (s. 7.3). Mechanical, electric or pneumatic tools stop at 6 p.m. on Saturday and run only from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday and holidays (s. 7.6). We set the time inside that, with you.

For the length of the job, and no longer — in Kirkland that is simple prudence. Zoning prohibits outdoor storage “throughout the territory of the town, for any use whatsoever” (s. 5.11 a); we do not claim that this section covers a rental dumpster placed for a few days during work, and the town has never written that it does — but keeping a box permanently as a shed is not on here. In the same spirit, the construction by-law requires job site installations authorized by a permit to be “removed within thirty (30) days following the end of the work” (90-60, s. 2.4 a), a text that does not name the dumpster. And construction materials left on the ground are a nuisance the town has cleared within twenty-four hours of written notice (by-law 2013-54, s. 3 o and 6). So pickup is planned at the same time as delivery.