Brooklyn Park, MN Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Placement ban
- No front yard or street-facing side yard storage
- Screening
- Opaque fence-type barrier; foliage doesn't qualify
- Curbside timing
- Out no earlier than 3 p.m. day before pickup
- Commercial hours near homes
- No hauling 8:30 p.m.-6:30 a.m., Sun., holidays
- Dumpster size (defined)
- About 2 to 6 cubic yards, § 98.01
- Enforcement
- Community Development Code Enforcement
Summary
In the City of Brooklyn Park, dumpsters and other waste containers cannot sit in a front yard or a side yard facing a street. City Code § 98.14 also requires them fully screened from the street and from neighboring front yards with an opaque fence-type barrier; bushes and trees do not count as screening.
Garbage, yard waste, recyclable materials, and other waste containers, bags, or bundles must not be stored or located within the front yard or any side yard that is adjacent to a street. In addition, all garbage, yard waste, recyclable materials, and other waste containers, bags, or bundles must be fully screened from view from all front and adjacent side streets and from the front yards of adjacent properties. For the purposes of this section, the phrase FULLY SCREENED means that the containers, bags, or bundles are screened with structurally sound opaque materials, such as a fence or other materials designed for this purpose, which may include architectural features similar to the home. All screening materials must be protected from deterioration. Foliage such as shrubs, bushes, and trees do not meet the definition of FULLY SCREENED. Waste containers must not be placed out for pickup before 3:00 p.m. the day before the scheduled pickup day, must not be placed in the street, and must be returned and placed in a proper location on the same day of collection.
Full Breakdown
14. Containers cannot be stored or located in the front yard or in any side yard adjacent to a street, and they must be fully screened from view from front and adjacent side streets and from neighboring front yards. FULLY SCREENED means structurally sound, opaque material such as a fence, possibly with architectural features matching the house, kept free of deterioration; shrubs, bushes and trees do not satisfy the definition even if they visually block the container. the day before pickup, cannot sit in the street, and must be pulled back to a proper location the same day they are emptied.
, all day Sunday, and on legal holidays (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas). 14 alongside property maintenance and zoning screening standards.
Violations & Fines
Section 98.14 carries a note reading "Penalty, see § 98.99," and because Chapter 98's general provisions (§§ 98.01-98.17) set no separate fine schedule of their own, § 98.99(A) routes an unscreened or misplaced dumpster to the citywide general penalty at § 10.99 rather than the recycling subchapter's $25/$100 civil-penalty table. Code Enforcement can issue a correction notice or citation requiring the container be relocated or screened.
Frequently Asked Questions
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