San Leandro limits garage and yard sales to two times per year on the property owner's premises or a residential property in the immediate vicinity. Off-site signs on public property (utility poles, street trees, medians, sidewalks) are prohibited — all signs must be placed on private property with the owner's permission, and a sign erected without a required permit violates Sign Code §4-1814.
San Leandro does not provide a special garage-sale-sign exemption in Chapter 4.12 of the Zoning Code. Garage and yard sales themselves are limited to two events per calendar year on the premises of the property owner or a residential property in the immediate vicinity (per the City's planning FAQ). Advertising signs are subject to the general sign rules: a sign erected without a permit is a violation of San Leandro Zoning Code §4-1814. Section 4-1806 prohibits posting signs on personal vehicles used solely to attract customers and prohibits canvas signs, banners, pennants, streamers, balloons, mobile A-frame signs, portable signs, feather signs, and similar temporary devices unless a Temporary Sign Permit is issued (and those permits are intended for businesses, not residential garage sales). In practice, modest hand-lettered garage-sale directional signs are tolerated when posted on private property with the owner's consent and removed at the end of the sale, but they may not be posted on utility poles, traffic signs, street trees, medians, sidewalks, or other public rights-of-way — those are routinely removed by Community Compliance staff.
Signs in the public right-of-way are removed without notice by Community Compliance. Repeat or large-format violations are cited under Zoning Code §4-1814 (sign without permit) and may be enforced as municipal code infractions. There is no fixed fine schedule published for residential garage-sale signs; enforcement is typically warning-then-citation under the City's general code enforcement process.
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