Clackamas County has no dedicated garage-sale ordinance or permit for unincorporated areas. Occasional yard sales at a home are treated as a normal residential activity, not a business, so no county license is required. Signs must follow the Zoning & Development Ordinance and cannot be placed in the public right-of-way.
The county does not license or cap residential garage sales in unincorporated areas; there is no county code chapter setting a number-of-sales-per-year limit. Because a genuine occasional garage sale is not a home occupation or retail business, no home-occupation permit under ZDO Section 822 is triggered. The main constraints are practical: temporary signs must comply with the county's Zoning & Development Ordinance sign standards and cannot be posted on utility poles, in the roadway, or in the public right-of-way, where the Road Use code (Ch. 7.03) applies. Frequent or ongoing sales could be viewed as an unpermitted retail use. Cities set their own garage-sale rules within their limits.
No garage-sale permit fine. Illegally placed signs may be removed under Road Use (Ch. 7.03); a continuous retail operation could be cited as an unpermitted commercial use under the ZDO.
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