Redwood City, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

81 of the Redwood City Code governs garage sale signs on private property. A sign may go up only on the day the sale is actually held, so signs posted days in advance or left up afterward fall outside the exemption. Each sign is capped at four square feet, measured one side only, and three feet in height above grade, and a single property may display no more than four such signs per sale. 153, which permit signs only from sunrise to sunset on Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, cap them at six square feet and three feet in height, limit displays to four per event, and bar placement in a street median or anywhere blocking a driveway visibility triangle.

71 backs both provisions with a general enforcement rule: any prohibited or noncompliant sign is subject to immediate abatement by the property owner or whoever installed it once the City gives notice. 61, homeowners never need to apply to the Planning Division before a one-time garage sale, so long as they stay within these size, timing, and quantity limits.