DeKalb County, GA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

Section 4.3.6.B.1 of the DeKalb County zoning ordinance sets a hard count: two (2) temporary signs are permitted during the yard sale, and no more. The placement conditions stack. Each sign must sit on private property, and the owner of that property must give permission, so directing traffic from a neighbor's corner lot requires that neighbor's okay first. Two locations are flatly prohibited regardless of permission: the public right-of-way and utility poles. Together those bans rule out the familiar tactics of staking a sign in the strip along the road or fastening one to the pole at an intersection.

The timing rule is just as strict as the count. Signs are allowed during the sale, and they must be removed immediately following its conclusion, with no grace period for leaving them up over the following days.

The same subsection reaches past signs into cleanup after the sale. All unsold yard sale merchandise remaining at the conclusion of the sale must be removed immediately, and merchandise a buyer purchased must be picked up within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale's conclusion, so a sold item cannot sit out front for days waiting on its buyer. These requirements were adopted through Ord. No. 15-06 on 8-25-2015 and apply in the unincorporated county.