Redondo Beach, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Sign count allowed
- One 'Garage Sale' sign per sale
- Maximum sign size
- Six square feet
- Placement
- On the sale premises only
- Permit needed
- No, exempt from Design Review
- Off-site placement
- Loses exemption, becomes unpermitted sign
- Governing section
- RBMC Section 10-2.1804(e)
Summary
Redondo Beach lets a garage sale post exactly one temporary sign, capped at six square feet, and it can only stand on the property where the sale is happening. Section 10-2.1804(e) exempts that one sign from Administrative Design Review, but every other placement, a neighbor's yard or a street corner, is off-limits.
(d) Construction signs during the period of construction not exceeding a total of 32 square feet. A larger total sign area may be permitted subject to Administrative Design Review for projects on larger sites with a substantial length of street frontage. (e) One "Garage Sale" temporary sign not exceeding six square feet and located only on the premises upon which the sale is occurring.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4889554; v14 updated 2026-05-12).
Full Breakdown
1804 lists signs that need no Administrative Design Review approval at all, and a garage-sale sign is one of them: subsection (e) allows exactly one temporary 'Garage Sale' sign, capped at six square feet, and it must sit only on the same premises where the sale is taking place. That is a narrower allowance than its closest neighbor on the same exempt list, subsection (d), which lets a construction sign run up to 32 square feet during the construction period (larger only with Administrative Design Review approval on bigger sites).
1806's design review requirement or removal. The exemption also caps the sign at one per sale, so a resident cannot supplement it with additional placards directing traffic from nearby intersections. Because the underlying garage or patio sale is itself a licensed activity under Title 4 of the Code, City staff treat the sign and the sale as linked: an oversized sign, multiple signs, or a sign left up after the sale ends draws the same code-enforcement response as any other unpermitted temporary sign in the City.
Violations & Fines
Posting an oversized or off-site garage-sale sign forfeits the Section 10-2.1804(e) exemption, turning it into an unpermitted sign under Section 10-2.1806 that Community Development can order removed. Because posting a sign without required Design Review approval is a Code violation, it falls under the citywide misdemeanor penalty in Section 1-2.01: up to a $1,000 fine, six months in jail, or both, with the City Attorney free to charge it instead as a lesser infraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
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