De Pere, WI Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

The frequency limit lives inside the zoning ordinance's definitions article rather than in a standalone garage-sale chapter: Article XVI, § 14-163(7) defines "Garage Sale" as the sale of personal household goods on a residential property, and folds rummage sales, lawn sales, yard sales, attic sales, and moving sales into that single definition. The operative limit sits in the same sentence: rummage-type sales on a residential property are capped at three occurrences per calendar year, and each occurrence may run no more than three consecutive days.

Because the count resets each calendar year, a household that runs three sales by summer cannot hold a fourth before January 1 of the following year. The ordinance does not carry a separate garage-sale permit application, fee, or hours-of-operation clause; the definition itself is the substantive rule, and it applies uniformly to whichever of the listed sale types a resident is running, so calling an event a "moving sale" instead of a "garage sale" does not exempt it from the three-per-year, three-day cap. Because this cap is written into the zoning code's definitions rather than a licensing chapter, a resident who exceeds it is using residential property for a use the zoning ordinance does not authorize, which brings the general zoning violation and enforcement provisions of Article XV into play rather than a separate garage-sale citation scheme.