San Diego County sets no dedicated garage-sale permit ordinance for unincorporated Bostonia. Occasional residential yard sales are treated as an accessory home use, not a business. Watch two County rules instead: unpermitted signs in the road right-of-way, and no ongoing commercial sales that would count as an unpermitted home occupation.
There is no San Diego County Code section that licenses residential garage or yard sales in the unincorporated area, and County Code Compliance does not list garage sales among what it investigates. The practical limits are collateral: temporary garage-sale signs placed in the public right-of-way or on utility poles can be removed as unpermitted signage, and repeated or continuous merchandise sales from a home can trigger the County's home-occupation rules (retail sales/customer traffic are restricted). Frequency limits, if any, are set by the County Zoning Ordinance's treatment of accessory uses rather than a standalone garage-sale ordinance.
Unpermitted signs may be removed by the County; running a de facto store from a residence can be cited as an unpermitted home occupation or zoning violation under the nuisance-abatement procedure.
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