Compton, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

4 requires that garage and yard sales be conducted entirely on private residential property. Subsection e goes further than just the sale itself: no items may be displayed on public parkways or rights-of-way, and none may be posted or hung on residential perimeter fences either. That reaches directional or advertising signage placed to draw drivers to the sale, since a sign staked into the parkway strip between sidewalk and curb, or zip-tied to a front fence facing the street, is exactly the kind of display the section places off private property and therefore out of bounds.

d. Read together, the code treats the sale as an event that must stay fully contained on the seller's own lot, from the goods on the table to the signage pointing people toward it, rather than spilling onto the public right-of-way the City otherwise has to keep clear for pedestrians and traffic sightlines.