Watch Those Rental/Sale Signs, Claremont Officials Warn

The start of summer has prompted Claremont’s Community Improvement to keep a closer eye on rental and for sale signs going up around the city.

An end to classes means student departures and empty apartments. in combination with a more active real estate market, there will likely more signs posted, city officials said through a news release. 

The municipal code governing real estate signs permits a sign with a maximum of six-square-feet in area and five feet in height, if freestanding, per street frontage of a property For Sale/Rent or Lease, officials wrote.

“No real estate signs advertising For Sale/Rent or Lease are permitted to be posted on City street signs, traffic signal poles or utility poles,” officials wrote. “All illegally posted signs will be removed and disposed of.”

Claremont Municipal Code allows one on-site open house sign and as many as two, freestanding, off site, open house signs, up to a maximum of three square feet in area, for display on private property, with permission of the owner, from noon to 6 p.m., on Saturdays and Sundays.

Balloons and flags are not permitted on the signs as they might be an obstruction for pedestrians and motorists, officials said. Open House signs posted or creating an obstruction in the public right-of-way will be removed.

For more information on Real Estate signs under the Claremont Municipal Code Section 18.015.030.C, call Community Improvement at (909) 399-5467, or review the code under the City Government/Municipal Code.