No garage sale permit is required in Redding for ordinary residential sales. Redding Zoning Ordinance Section 18.17.020(D) lists garage and yard sales in residential zones as a temporary use exempt from any permit requirement — up to three (3) garage or yard sales in any twelve-month period, not exceeding three (3) consecutive days each, are deemed a use incidental to the residential use of the property. Garage or yard sales in excess of that limit are prohibited in all residential zones.
Redding's garage-sale framework lives in the Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 18.17 Temporary Use Permits, at https://files.cityofredding.gov/Document%20Center/Departments/Development%20Services/Planning/Zoning%20Ordinance/Chapter%2018.17%20Temporary%20Use%20Permits.pdf. Section 18.17.020 (Temporary Uses Exempt From Permits) at subsection (D) provides: 'Garage and Yard Sales in Residential Zones. Three (3) garage or yard sales in any twelve-month period, not exceeding three (3) consecutive days each, shall be deemed a use incidental to the residential use of a property. Garage or yard sales in excess of this limit shall be prohibited in all residential zones.' That structure means a Redding resident can hold up to three weekend sales per year without filing anything with the City — no permit application, no fee, no advance notice to Development Services. Sales beyond the three-per-year/three-day-each ceiling are not eligible for a temporary use permit either, because Section 18.17.030 (Temporary Uses Requiring Permits) lists only commercial-zone rummage and similar sales — residential-zone garage sales above the exempt threshold are flatly 'prohibited in all residential zones.' Two practical boundary issues: (1) signs advertising a garage sale must follow Redding's signage rules in the Zoning Ordinance — garage-sale signs should generally be limited to the sale property and may not be posted in the public right-of-way, on utility poles, or in landscaped medians, with offending signs subject to removal by the City; and (2) sales that become continuous retail activity, or that involve substantial inventory the seller did not personally use, can be reviewed as an unlicensed business requiring a Redding business license. California sales tax law at California Revenue & Taxation Code Section 6006.5 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=RTC§ionNum=6006.5.) provides an 'occasional sale' exclusion — a person not in the business of selling tangible personal property who holds at most two such sales in any twelve-month period is not making a 'retail sale' for sales-tax purposes, so most residential garage sales in Redding remain outside sales-tax registration as long as they stay within the occasional-sale window.
Holding a fourth (or later) garage or yard sale within any twelve-month period in a residential zone is a violation of Section 18.17.020(D), enforceable as a zoning violation under RMC Chapter 1.13 with administrative citations and abatement orders. Signs posted in the public right-of-way are subject to removal without notice plus fines. Operating a continuing retail activity without a Redding business license is enforced by the City Finance Department with back-tax assessment and penalties. State-level sales-tax assessment for repeated sales beyond the California Revenue & Taxation Code Section 6006.5 occasional-sale window is enforced by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA).
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