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

70 PMC lists garage and yard sales among the temporary uses permitted in the RS, RM, PDR and residential portions of PDC zones. 010(3) allows a garage or yard sale conducted exclusively by the occupants of a residential dwelling, meaning a homeowner cannot host sales for neighbors or run a de facto secondhand retail operation under this exemption. The frequency cap is no greater than four sales in any one-year period, and no more than three days of sale in any single calendar month, so a resident could run one three-day sale, or split the four allotted sales across shorter weekend events, as long as both the monthly three-day ceiling and the yearly four-sale ceiling hold.

005 otherwise requires for other temporary uses in the city, so no application or fee is owed to the planning department for an ordinary garage sale. The ordinance also regulates the physical setup: any tent or other temporary structure erected for the sale cannot exceed 120 square feet in area. The code is explicit that exceeding the frequency or duration limits is not merely a technicality: garage or yard sales which exceed these specified time limits are prohibited and are considered violations of Title 20, meaning a fifth sale in a year or a fourth day of sales in one month puts the resident in violation of the zoning code rather than just losing an exemption.