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

Off-site directional signs for garage sales are governed by Placentia Municipal Code § 23.90.140, and § 23.90.060(11) exempts them from the sign permit when they do not exceed three (3) square feet in area and follow § 23.90.140. The same section covers directional signs for open houses and new residential developments.

Timing is the strictest part. Signs may only be posted on weekends between 6:00 p.m. on Friday and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, on legal holidays between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., and between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on one (1) weekday designated by the city council. Outside those windows nothing can be posted in the City of Placentia, so the signs have to come down when the window closes.

Placement in the public right-of-way is limited to parkways, treewells and parkway vistas. Signs cannot be posted in median islands, on utility poles, light standards, traffic signals, street trees or public tract entry planters, or in any fashion that would interfere with traffic signals or sight visibility at intersections and driveways. No more than one sign per direction of traffic is allowed at any intersection within the public right-of-way, and signs must be at least one thousand (1,000) feet apart, except at intersections.

Size is capped in § 23.90.140(5): no more than three (3) square feet in area, and no sign erected in excess of four (4) feet in height. Subsection (6) allows signs to be posted on private property.

Other rules back this up. Section 23.90.110 bars anyone except a public officer or city employee from pasting, posting, painting or erecting a sign on public property, and bars attaching items to private utility company poles without written approval from the utility. Section 23.90.100(6) prohibits A-frame and H-stake signs.