How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood?

In the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 274 building permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, the same as a year earlier. Of the 274 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 78 days of being issued, down from 137 days the year before.

From the city’s permit records, by the quarter each permit was filed. Data as of 8 October 2026. How to cite this · How this is calculated

How long until a permit is issued, and until final sign-off?

This chart as an image (SVG), with its title, source and date, free to embed under CC BY 4.0.

At a glance

Stage	Permits filed	Permits counted	Median days	Counted a year earlier	Median a year earlier
Filed to permit issued	October 2025 through September 2026	274 issued	0	376 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	274 finished	78	234 finished	137

“Counted” is the permits the median was taken over: those filed in the window that have been issued, or that have reached final sign-off. The first stage covers the last four complete quarters, since most permits are issued within the year. The second covers the last four quarters that ended two or more years ago, so that most of their permits have had time to finish. Citywide, the median was 0 days to issue and 98 days from issue to final over the same quarters.

Every quarter since 2000

Quarter filed	Filed	Issued	Median days to issue	Slowest 10%	Reached final	Median days issue to final	Slowest 10%	Never finaled	Settled
2026-Q4	24	19	0	0	0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	61	41	0	23	8	40	67	0	too recent
2026-Q2	73	67	0	45	31	40	69	0	too recent
2026-Q1	87	82	0	64	54	64	165	0	too recent
2025-Q4	100	84	0	27	57	81	194	0	too recent
2025-Q3	107	103	0	72	71	84	244	0	too recent
2025-Q2	98	94	0	40	64	64	229	0	too recent
2025-Q1	90	90	0	21	69	90	241	0	too recent
2024-Q4	94	89	0	37	62	124	345	0	too recent
2024-Q3	100	97	0	46	81	77	362	0	yes
2024-Q2	95	93	0	18	70	68	208	0	yes
2024-Q1	81	79	0	37	68	67	261	0	yes
2023-Q4	79	70	0	99	55	118	413	0	yes
2023-Q3	88	78	0	50	62	104	481	16	yes
2023-Q2	88	87	2	130	67	147	545	18	yes
2023-Q1	74	70	0	65	50	150	543	18	yes
2022-Q4	77	73	0	90	55	157	534	13	yes
2022-Q3	83	76	0	130	53	105	589	18	yes
2022-Q2	83	75	0	92	60	92	420	13	yes
2022-Q1	95	88	0	55	70	124	371	18	yes
2021-Q4	64	54	1	176	41	193	391	11	yes
2021-Q3	77	68	0	267	50	160	625	16	yes
2021-Q2	90	79	0	96	65	122	474	10	yes
2021-Q1	79	70	0	211	60	130	731	11	yes
2020-Q4	76	75	0	123	58	158	459	15	yes
2020-Q3	96	89	3	75	58	95	583	32	yes
2020-Q2	34	28	4	48	18	86	311	12	yes
2020-Q1	86	81	0	208	48	206	504	31	yes
2019-Q4	116	108	0	318	64	196	612	44	yes
2019-Q3	118	115	0	148	70	80	804	41	yes
2019-Q2	115	110	0	48	70	99	628	36	yes
2019-Q1	88	87	0	57	56	240	633	29	yes
2018-Q4	101	97	0	104	49	166	738	46	yes
2018-Q3	119	114	0	90	58	166	598	52	yes
2018-Q2	125	122	0	108	71	111	688	49	yes
2018-Q1	124	117	0	155	71	173	733	46	yes
2017-Q4	123	119	0	61	65	134	555	53	yes
2017-Q3	169	159	0	100	96	202	547	59	yes
2017-Q2	119	114	0	95	64	106	620	49	yes
2017-Q1	92	89	0	19	53	113	441	37	yes
2016-Q4	100	95	0	141	53	125	654	41	yes
2016-Q3	147	142	0	89	82	115	479	54	yes
2016-Q2	115	111	0	28	58	126	522	48	yes
2016-Q1	122	117	0	194	72	130	705	43	yes
2015-Q4	125	124	0	155	80	144	569	43	yes
2015-Q3	135	129	0	95	76	95	500	50	yes
2015-Q2	123	122	0	116	79	124	512	36	yes
2015-Q1	102	95	0	141	70	88	626	27	yes
2014-Q4	101	97	0	258	67	87	558	26	yes
2014-Q3	135	133	0	32	94	152	667	35	yes
2014-Q2	136	134	0	110	90	118	558	44	yes
2014-Q1	111	109	0	79	73	96	519	35	yes
2013-Q4	106	102	0	207	66	175	579	35	yes
2013-Q3	131	125	0	20	80	86	390	42	yes
2013-Q2	94	92	0	22	66	76	379	24	yes
2013-Q1	70	70	0	13	53	103	434	17	yes
2012-Q4	82	81	0	34	50	78	534	27	yes
2012-Q3	114	113	0	25	73	99	412	38	yes
2012-Q2	113	111	0	14	70	63	309	35	yes
2012-Q1	81	79	0	25	59	70	259	17	yes
2011-Q4	68	67	0	56	55	101	356	10	yes
2011-Q3	135	128	0	32	85	66	352	39	yes
2011-Q2	75	74	0	26	52	46	363	22	yes
2011-Q1	90	89	0	28	58	86	491	22	yes
2010-Q4	86	82	0	6	48	66	275	30	yes
2010-Q3	122	118	0	30	84	66	340	31	yes
2010-Q2	103	99	0	20	69	57	297	24	yes
2010-Q1	94	90	0	1	54	76	246	28	yes
2009-Q4	121	119	0	2	71	53	272	38	yes
2009-Q3	107	106	0	10	78	79	357	22	yes
2009-Q2	120	118	0	0	82	67	371	31	yes
2009-Q1	102	96	0	4	48	72	345	40	yes
2008-Q4	102	101	0	7	69	104	346	27	yes
2008-Q3	136	135	0	7	82	90	479	40	yes
2008-Q2	131	126	0	6	79	88	314	33	yes
2008-Q1	127	123	0	15	64	139	436	43	yes
2007-Q4	98	93	0	189	49	71	437	23	yes
2007-Q3	148	146	0	3	78	76	294	48	yes
2007-Q2	145	144	0	2	77	71	240	47	yes
2007-Q1	119	118	0	6	62	93	365	28	yes
2006-Q4	112	109	0	39	49	80	423	30	yes
2006-Q3	136	135	0	16	64	90	286	27	yes
2006-Q2	162	160	0	1	95	138	415	46	yes
2006-Q1	103	101	0	6	54	94	294	22	yes
2005-Q4	114	113	0	45	54	118	511	23	yes
2005-Q3	111	107	0	58	66	112	509	15	yes
2005-Q2	94	91	0	156	40	88	372	20	yes
2005-Q1	108	105	0	167	58	174	529	24	yes
2004-Q4	89	89	0	0	55	64	519	13	yes
2004-Q3	133	131	0	42	81	102	519	22	yes
2004-Q2	121	119	0	45	71	64	260	22	yes
2004-Q1	112	108	0	64	61	118	339	12	yes
2003-Q4	121	117	0	51	68	81	283	22	yes
2003-Q3	124	123	0	56	83	86	353	14	yes
2003-Q2	133	127	0	43	74	116	382	20	yes
2003-Q1	92	88	0	245	57	80	438	7	yes
2002-Q4	104	102	0	59	53	71	366	17	yes
2002-Q3	135	133	0	136	67	87	249	19	yes
2002-Q2	150	147	0	82	82	84	254	11	yes
2002-Q1	107	106	0	69	59	102	367	3	yes
2001-Q4	98	97	0	54	67	83	327	1	yes
2001-Q3	112	109	0	61	56	85	326	0	yes
2001-Q2	96	90	0	35	45	61	188	1	yes
2001-Q1	83	80	0	150	45	77	365	1	yes
2000-Q4	98	97	0	55	55	114	423	0	yes
2000-Q3	97	96	0	232	41	110	328	0	yes
2000-Q2	109	107	0	104	56	116	338	1	yes
2000-Q1	88	84	0	165	33	150	449	0	yes

A blank median means fewer than 5 permits behind it: issued permits for the first stage, and for the second, finished permits whose final is dated after their issue (a permit never issued has no span). “Slowest 10%” is the 90th percentile: one permit in ten took at least this long. Download the table as CSV or JSON; both carry the source, license and data date.

What the numbers leave out

2,529 of the 11,302 building permits filed since 2000 (22%) have no final sign-off 3 years after they were issued or, if never issued, filed. A median over finished permits understates the real wait: the permits that never finish are not in it. Citywide, 798 of 801,386 permits since 2000 (0%) name no neighborhood and count in the city's figures only. Inspection records are not yet included: “final sign-off” is the city’s own completion date on the permit.

Project types in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (1,601 filed, 1,164 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (1,308 filed, 929 finished; contractors); deck (818 filed, 553 finished; contractors); stairs (805 filed, 522 finished; contractors); roof deck (122 filed, 75 finished; contractors). Other types: 7,929 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, Twin Peaks; all of San Francisco; every neighborhood compared.

How this is calculated

Approved means the city issued the permit: the permit’s issue date. The first stage counts days from the filing date to the issue date, over permits issued on or after they were filed. Final sign-off means the city’s own status for the permit is “complete”, with its completion date; this site does not yet read inspection records, so the inspection date is not a separate stage. The second stage counts days from the issue date to the completion date, over permits that have reached it.

Permits are grouped by the quarter they were filed. A quarter’s median counts only its permits that have finished the stage, so recent quarters look faster than they will end up: their slow permits have not finished yet. Quarters that ended two or more years ago are marked settled; the rest are shaded in the chart. The headline’s first stage uses the last four complete quarters; its second uses the last four settled quarters.

The median is the middle permit: half took less, half more. The slowest 10% is the 90th percentile. A median needs at least 5 permits behind it, or it is left out. A project type is shown apart within a neighborhood only when it has 30 or more finished permits there; the rest are “other types”.

Never finaled means no final sign-off three years after the permit was issued (or filed, if never issued), and not expired, cancelled, withdrawn, revoked, disapproved, denied or suspended (the site’s “expired or cancelled” outcome). About a quarter of permits citywide end this way; often the work was done and nobody called for the final inspection. These permits are in the counts and not in the medians.

A permit’s neighborhood is the Analysis Neighborhood the city writes on the permit record (the official set of 41). Permits with none are counted citywide only; the page says how many. “Nearby” neighborhoods are the three nearest by the center of their permits. The site reloads the city’s data every night; permits filed since 1 January 2000 are included. The placement of a permit, its dates and its status are the city’s; the grouping and the words are this site’s. How to read these records.