St. Johns County requires no permit for a residential garage sale. The Land Development Code treats it as an accessory use to the home, allowed without a license or fee, as long as you stay within the once-per-six-months and three-day limits.
There is no garage-sale permit to pull in unincorporated St. Johns County. The Land Development Code classifies a garage or yard sale as an accessory use to a residence, permitted in all residential districts without any application, license, or fee, provided it stays inside the code's frequency and duration limits. That makes St. Johns County simpler than many Florida jurisdictions that require a clerk permit. The catch is private governance: HOA and CDD covenants across Nocatee, Ponte Vedra, and World Golf Village can require their own approval, restrict sales to a community sale day, or ban them entirely. Inside the City of St. Augustine, the city's separate zoning rules control rather than the county code.
No county permit means no permit violation. But holding sales beyond the code's frequency or duration limits, or against an HOA covenant that requires approval or bans them, brings a county code-enforcement citation or HOA enforcement action.
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