Elk Grove, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

150, Signs on residential uses, expressly covers the noncommercial messages homeowners post for garage sales and yard sales, and it allows those signs without a City permit. 62-5's limits. In single-family districts, a homeowner may put up one A-frame sign, capped at 8 square feet of area and a maximum width of thirty inches, standing no taller than 4 feet, and set back at least 5 feet from the right-of-way. Every other sign type on a single-family lot (an unlimited number of them) is capped at 5 square feet total area, may rise no higher than the roofline of the dwelling, and must also clear that same 5-foot right-of-way setback.

Multifamily properties follow the same 5-square-foot total, roofline height cap, and 5-foot setback per dwelling unit, and freestanding yard signs or fence signs there need the landowner's consent. No sign under this section may sit inside a required clear-vision triangle at a corner or driveway, and illumination of any residential sign is flatly prohibited under subsection (C). During the sixty days before, and seven days after, a special, general, or primary election, the maximum sign area allowance bumps up by an extra 5 square feet, but that bump is tied to the election window, not to garage sales.

The section does not set a separate holding period or removal deadline text specific to garage-sale postings; the limiting factors are the size, height, and setback caps in the table, which apply for as long as the sign stands. Signs identifying only the address or occupants, and flags, fall outside these caps entirely.