By Neil Farrell

Morro Bay’s Annual Citywide Yard Sale is set for Friday-Saturday, April 1-3 at homes throughout the community but the event is being put on automatic pilot and no official signups are being taken.

Morro Bay Beautiful, which organizes the event in conjunction with Morro Bay Garbage Co.’s Spring Cleanup Week (Mission Country Disposal in Los Osos and Cayucos), has decided that with the drop-off in signups last year, an official map listing the sales is unnecessary.

Nor will there be an official event “headquarters” where people can get information and maps.

Sellers are on their own for advertising, and will no doubt have to resort to the old tried-and-true methods of signs tacked to utility poles, on A-frames or on the windows of parked cars.

But sellers should be aware that posting such signs on poles is against the City Municipal Code, so they should be removed immediately after the sale is over, especially now that the City has proactive code enforcement agents.

Morro Bay residents are nevertheless being encouraged to have a yard sale that weekend and to take part in the Spring Cleanup Week, which is April 11-15 in Morro Bay, Cayucos and Los Osos.

According to a flyer the garbage company put out, the service is only for single-family residential customers. They want the extra garbage out on the curb no later than 6 a.m. on your regular pick-up day and don’t block the waste wheelers (gray, blue and green garbage cans), as the normal automated truck will still come to get those.

Clean-Up Week garbage may be bagged, bundled, put in cardboard boxes or in standard trash cans. (Be sure to leave a note or they will take your trashcans too.)

The limit for garbage, green-waste and recycling combined is 12 standard trash cans (32-gallons each) or the equivalent in bags, boxes, or bundles. And no hazardous materials will be taken, however, the City operates a household hazardous waste drop-off facility on Saturdays at the sewer treatment plant on Atascadero Road.

And you must call them a week ahead of time if you want to get rid of things like TVs, water heaters, couches, washers, dryers, small appliances, chairs, box springs, mattresses, refrigerators, and overstuffed chairs. Those are generally $10 each with a two-per-house limit.

Passenger car tires cost $2.50 each to get rid of with a limit of four per household; same price for rims. If you’ve got something that takes two men to wrestle away, they will give you a quote for the additional costs.