St. Johns County caps residential garage sales at one per property during any six-month period under its Land Development Code. That works out to about two a year, and running them more often, or continuously, risks a code-enforcement citation for operating a business in a home.
The frequency limit in unincorporated St. Johns County is set by the Land Development Code, which allows a garage or yard sale as an accessory use but limits each property to one during any six-month period. In practice that is roughly two sales a year per address. The rule exists to keep residential lots from turning into de facto stores. Holding sales far more often, or leaving merchandise out continuously, crosses from an accessory use into an unpermitted commercial use of a home, which draws separate code-enforcement attention. HOA and CDD covenants in the county's planned communities frequently tighten this further, permitting only one community-wide sale day a year or none at all.
Exceeding one sale per six-month period violates the Land Development Code and draws a St. Johns County code-enforcement citation. Continuous or repeated sales that amount to running a retail business from a home trigger separate zoning enforcement.
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