The City of Edmonton is making a change to the process of requesting a permit for a disposal bin or other container to be placed on the street. Starting in 2021, a street permit for a disposal bin will cost $25 per day. Until this change, a permit was required but it was free.
Many surrounding communities, such as St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and Spruce Grove, never allow disposal bins to be placed on the street.
What does this mean for Blue Jay projects?
Until now, most of our projects in Edmonton have involved us parking an installer’s trailer in one stall on the customer’s driveway, and placing a disposal bin on the street at no extra charge. Since this won’t work any longer, our customers will have a few options moving forward:
Disposal bin will be placed on the street, and the additional $25 per day fee will be added to our contract.
Rather than a full-sized disposal bin we will switch to 12-yard bags, which can be placed on grass. This may or may not increase the cost of disposal, depending on the project. These bags are not an option for stucco or masonry removal.
We will place the disposal bin on the driveway, and find another place for the installer’s trailer (for example, parked on the front lawn on wooden planks).
We will place the disposal bin on the driveway, and the installer will haul the trailer away at the end of each day (unattached trailers may not be left on the street at any time.) This will result in a small fuel surcharge that we will agree to in a formal change order.
If one of these options doesn’t work for you, simply let us know and we will figure out an arrangement that makes sense! It’s important that we get the job site set up properly to make sure that we meet your expectations.