Everett, WA Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

068 governs temporary uses citywide: activities not otherwise allowed in a zone but permitted short-term if strictly time-limited, such as community festivals and vegetable stands. 02 local project review process, sign an irrevocable notarized statement letting the city summarily abate the use if not removed on time, and get written landlord permission, and the city can only issue a permit for up to sixty days once per user per use in any three-hundred-sixty-five-day period. Subsection H carves out specific exceptions to that entire permit process.

H(1) exempts garage sales outright but limits them to two events per year, with each event capped at a maximum duration of four days. H(2) grants parallel time-boxed exemptions to other temporary uses sited in commercial and industrial zones, such as Christmas tree lots (forty-five days), and amusement rides, carnivals, circuses, and ancillary parking lot sales (ten consecutive days), showing the code treats garage sales as the most tightly time-boxed of the exempt categories. 010 is required regardless of use type. Because garage sales fall under the exemption, a resident does not file a temporary use application or pay a review fee for a compliant sale; the two-event, four-day cap is the only limit the code imposes.