Long Beach, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

500, meaning a resident can post one without applying for a sign permit or paying a fee as long as it stays within the class's size limits: a maximum height of four feet and a maximum area of six square feet. The table restricts the exemption to one sign "per garage sale on same premises," so a household cannot scatter multiple exempt signs around its own yard sale, and the only placement rule spelled out for this class is that "no sign shall be placed on public property", meaning street rights-of-way, medians, utility poles, traffic signs, and other City-owned surfaces are off-limits regardless of the sign's size.

600 separately prohibits portable signs and any sign that projects into a public right-of-way without an encroachment permit from the City Engineer, so a garage-sale sign staked in a parkway or zip-tied to a stop sign violates both provisions at once. Because the Table 44-4 exemption is keyed to "per garage sale," a homeowner running a sale over a weekend is limited to that one sign for the duration of the event, and the code gives no separate exemption for directional signs placed off-site to point shoppers toward the sale.