Why does the same week cost $235 in one street of the sector and $2,279 in another?
Because two variables multiply each other. First the class of the way: $26 a day in a local street, $106 on an arterial or a collector, for a footprint of 3 m or less. Then the high-density strategic segment, which triples the day's rate. Inside Laval-des-Rapides all four cases sit within a few hundred metres of one another: $235 in a Bon-Pasteur bungalow street, $2,279 on avenue Ampère or boulevard Robin, the $53 in fixed fees included. Figures calculated by us on the City's 2026 schedule.
Can a small residential street really be classed TSHD?
Yes, and that is the trap of this sector. On the City's map, avenue Léo-Lacombe and rue François-Souillard are drawn in the same grey as the local streets beside them, but under the green highlight of high-density strategic segments; so are the small streets Marconi, Branly, Nobel-Perrin and Copernic. A week in a space there comes to $599 rather than $235. Since this is the reading of a 1:20,000 map, ask the Service de l'ingénierie for written confirmation before booking anything.
In a Laval-des-Rapides driveway, is there anything to ask the City for?
Nothing whatsoever, and the Code de l'urbanisme pushes the point one step further: on a job site it orders the waste into a box (s. 131). Only three obligations come with it — 1.5 m of setback from the lot lines, an installation later than the issuing of the building permit, a removal within the 30 days following the end of the job site. The Code's five yard-type tables allow the box in all four yards, front yard included. The occupancy permit concerns the public domain only.
Where does the load go, since the sector has no ecocentre?
To us, on to the sorting or disposal facility: that is the whole principle of the service. The two Laval drop-off points are at the other end of the island, on boulevard Dagenais Ouest, in Vimont and in Fabreville, with a ceiling of 3 m³ per visit — less than half a 10-yard — 12 m³ free per address per year, then $29 a cubic metre. A business gets through the gate only alongside the Laval resident it is working for, dump truck refused and unloading done at arm's length.
Can a box be left in a street space near the De la Concorde metro?
That is the worst place in the area to try it. Permit zones 1, 14, 15 and 16 cover the streets near the station, and zone 1 keeps every space for residents, Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Yet the exemption from the engineer's plan and from the insurance assumes on-street parking to be permitted throughout: the City has not settled that case in writing, so it has to be put to them before counting on a space. Boulevard de la Concorde Ouest is a high-density segment on top of it, at $318 a day.
Is my Bon-Pasteur bungalow driveway long enough for a 20-yard?
Often yes, but the margin is thin: the municipal study gives that group lots of 15 to 18 m of frontage by 22 to 26 m of depth, the shortest in Laval-des-Rapides. The marker that settles the question in ten seconds: a 20-yard is about the size of a Dodge Caravan. If the minivan fits with room to walk past it, the box fits too. And dropping a size shortens nothing: the 10-yard is the 20-yard at half height, laid on the same rectangle.
Can concrete and wood go in the same box?
No. The mixed dry materials format swallows wood, drywall, metal, shingles and furniture, in 10, 20 or 40 yards. The four dedicated boxes — concrete alone, bricks and mortar alone, soil-rocks-sod alone, asphalt alone — each take their own material and nothing else, and any mixing sets off sorting fees. Refused in every format, whatever the size: tires and everything chemical — paint, solvents, oils, propane, aerosols, acids.