Garage Sale Sign Guidelines/May 3, 2008 Waiver for Citywide Garage Sale

The Lakeland Board of Commissioners, at the request of the Lakeland Civic Club, has waived some garage/yard sale regulations for the Additions/Neighborhoods participating in the Citywide garage sale only.

The waiver includes the following:

-One sign may be placed at the entrance to the neighborhood/addition entrance indicating participation in the Citywide garage sale. Individual garage sale signs are still limited to one sign placed on the property itself.

-Balloons and streamers are allowed on mailboxes, again only in neighborhoods/additions participating in the Citywide garage sale and only for the hours the garage sale is actually open on Saturday, May 3, 2008. This includes the following subdivisions:

1. Woodland Park

2. Lakeland Estates

3. Windward Slopes

4. Plantation Hills

5. Stonebridge

6. Fairway Meadows

7. Herons Ridge

8. Oakwood

9. Woodland Hills

10: Evergreen Hills

11. Memphis-Arlington (houses along Memphis Arlington Road)

Except for the one day waivers noted above, the following regulations are enforced for garage/yard sales:

City of Lakeland regulations allow one regulation size “Garage Sale” sign on the property of the Garage Sale. No flags, banners, balloons etc. are allowed to call attention to the Garage Sale. No permit is required for a Garage Sale or a Garage Sale sign.
Signs are not allowed on public property (intersections, street right of ways) and garage sale signs on public property will be removed.

We appreciate your cooperation in complying with the Lakeland community requirements on garage sale signs.

Specific regulations are:

Yard Sale Signs (14-404.2(20))

Signs for yard sales shall be allowed provided that:

(a) Only one (1) such sign shall be on the lot where the yard sale is located;

(b) Such sign shall not exceed five (5) square feet in sign area per side and 48 inches in height measured from finished grade;

(c) Such sign shall be removed immediately upon conclusion of the yard sale;

(d) No such signs shall be placed in such as manner as to obstruct visibility or be attached to utility poles, directional or regulatory signage, or trees; and

(e) Such sign shall not be placed closer than 15 feet from the edge of pavement or five (5) feet behind a sidewalk, whichever is greater.