Coconut Creek, FL Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

Section 13-469.1(c)(4) of the Coconut Creek sign code is the only yard sale sign allowance. It authorizes one ground sign on the premises where the yard sale in a residential zoning district will occur, for each street frontage, capped at 3 square feet in area and 3 feet in height. A corner lot with two street frontages can therefore display two. Sec. 13-457 defines a yard sale sign as a temporary sign in a residential zoning district advertising a garage, yard or patio sale conducted as a permitted temporary or promotional use to a dwelling. The schedule of permitted signs in Sec. 13-459 cross-references this rule as Sec. 13-469.41(c)(4), a numbering slip in the code, while the text itself prints under Sec. 13-469.1.

Timing is tight. The sign can be posted on the day of the yard sale and must come down at the conclusion of the sale, so it cannot go up the night before or stay up for the next weekend. The allowance is limited to the sale premises, and Sec. 13-458(19) prohibits every sign the code does not specifically permit. Directional signs at intersections, on medians or on neighbors' lots have no permission in this code.

Other sign code rules apply to the same sign. Temporary signs cannot be illuminated under Sec. 13-469(c). Sec. 13-460(s) bars displaying any sign on property without the owner's permission. Sec. 13-460(b) and (c)(1) make it unlawful to erect a sign in the public right-of-way except as the city authorizes. Sec. 13-458(6) prohibits snipe signs, meaning signs tacked, nailed, glued or otherwise attached to trees, utility or lighting poles, stakes, fences or other objects not designed to support signs.