How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Lone Mountain/USF neighborhood?

In the Lone Mountain/USF neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 308 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 264 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 92 days of being issued, down from 133 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?

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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	308 issued	0	334 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	264 finished	92	275 finished	133

“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	6	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	77	59	2	21	11	26	41	0	too recent
2026-Q2	80	72	0	16	43	32	112	0	too recent
2026-Q1	85	79	0	28	44	62	158	0	too recent
2025-Q4	107	98	0	36	68	70	174	0	too recent
2025-Q3	105	97	0	49	71	62	202	0	too recent
2025-Q2	109	104	0	43	76	132	284	0	too recent
2025-Q1	82	78	1	50	58	142	386	0	too recent
2024-Q4	64	55	1	169	40	98	332	0	too recent
2024-Q3	95	91	0	19	71	87	313	0	yes
2024-Q2	110	104	0	41	80	104	408	0	yes
2024-Q1	72	65	0	15	54	88	343	0	yes
2023-Q4	87	82	0	31	59	108	430	2	yes
2023-Q3	114	108	0	40	78	118	470	30	yes
2023-Q2	97	91	0	130	69	95	393	15	yes
2023-Q1	91	83	0	60	65	151	414	21	yes
2022-Q4	88	78	1	144	63	133	396	15	yes
2022-Q3	109	102	0	63	74	110	374	27	yes
2022-Q2	118	108	0	196	87	195	619	26	yes
2022-Q1	111	107	0	107	83	134	500	21	yes
2021-Q4	85	77	0	113	61	174	633	14	yes
2021-Q3	138	124	0	95	93	125	526	30	yes
2021-Q2	91	86	0	90	69	141	513	17	yes
2021-Q1	101	84	0	116	71	145	555	15	yes
2020-Q4	118	109	24	212	91	190	784	16	yes
2020-Q3	156	143	6	133	94	144	562	50	yes
2020-Q2	57	49	8	108	33	119	565	22	yes
2020-Q1	130	118	0	143	64	192	564	55	yes
2019-Q4	141	133	0	248	60	262	674	67	yes
2019-Q3	184	169	0	12	88	120	690	79	yes
2019-Q2	174	157	0	63	81	133	472	78	yes
2019-Q1	162	153	0	29	77	191	709	72	yes
2018-Q4	150	142	0	144	72	148	847	70	yes
2018-Q3	167	156	0	101	83	134	497	71	yes
2018-Q2	161	157	0	102	87	181	784	69	yes
2018-Q1	147	134	0	59	76	147	690	60	yes
2017-Q4	137	134	0	233	61	163	618	66	yes
2017-Q3	220	205	0	510	123	148	875	79	yes
2017-Q2	180	170	0	137	105	122	710	61	yes
2017-Q1	136	131	0	62	80	118	645	48	yes
2016-Q4	129	125	0	212	79	128	699	45	yes
2016-Q3	143	138	0	166	83	138	560	53	yes
2016-Q2	118	113	0	125	68	187	640	42	yes
2016-Q1	103	95	0	52	63	78	429	34	yes
2015-Q4	112	110	0	161	60	162	653	44	yes
2015-Q3	129	121	0	118	75	101	433	45	yes
2015-Q2	140	139	0	97	92	142	405	41	yes
2015-Q1	129	125	0	138	84	90	704	37	yes
2014-Q4	138	133	0	34	80	110	367	51	yes
2014-Q3	168	160	0	23	102	91	344	58	yes
2014-Q2	168	161	0	62	101	122	488	55	yes
2014-Q1	134	129	0	21	74	103	413	50	yes
2013-Q4	137	133	0	17	89	93	322	41	yes
2013-Q3	127	122	0	21	83	84	346	35	yes
2013-Q2	116	114	0	58	76	90	366	37	yes
2013-Q1	111	106	0	42	65	102	309	38	yes
2012-Q4	113	111	0	14	70	54	259	40	yes
2012-Q3	137	131	0	58	84	79	498	44	yes
2012-Q2	127	125	0	26	91	105	339	33	yes
2012-Q1	84	83	0	51	44	101	549	37	yes
2011-Q4	97	94	0	19	50	64	216	41	yes
2011-Q3	123	119	0	14	68	70	251	48	yes
2011-Q2	117	115	0	28	80	84	659	32	yes
2011-Q1	82	79	0	14	48	64	787	29	yes
2010-Q4	107	105	0	14	72	86	329	30	yes
2010-Q3	127	126	0	5	77	75	266	49	yes
2010-Q2	128	125	0	20	90	120	351	33	yes
2010-Q1	96	91	0	14	49	94	420	39	yes
2009-Q4	99	93	0	7	44	82	276	43	yes
2009-Q3	125	124	0	1	63	59	276	57	yes
2009-Q2	115	113	0	26	62	92	653	47	yes
2009-Q1	116	114	0	7	67	113	477	39	yes
2008-Q4	112	109	0	4	49	59	346	55	yes
2008-Q3	139	138	0	10	79	62	296	42	yes
2008-Q2	131	127	0	2	64	68	258	56	yes
2008-Q1	151	145	0	4	82	62	177	54	yes
2007-Q4	139	134	0	90	65	96	425	58	yes
2007-Q3	161	159	0	26	83	110	1,238	65	yes
2007-Q2	146	145	0	0	61	101	379	72	yes
2007-Q1	120	119	0	7	65	104	440	49	yes
2006-Q4	116	116	0	0	53	110	766	54	yes
2006-Q3	182	180	0	3	91	112	308	68	yes
2006-Q2	155	152	0	2	89	96	483	50	yes
2006-Q1	129	127	0	71	75	78	249	37	yes
2005-Q4	128	128	0	0	71	124	490	35	yes
2005-Q3	154	151	0	0	72	129	394	38	yes
2005-Q2	167	166	0	76	80	122	349	52	yes
2005-Q1	98	94	0	0	60	78	317	18	yes
2004-Q4	115	113	0	0	54	102	360	32	yes
2004-Q3	129	128	0	22	68	99	287	41	yes
2004-Q2	136	133	0	10	75	67	251	24	yes
2004-Q1	111	106	0	0	60	64	187	24	yes
2003-Q4	107	104	0	4	57	41	182	27	yes
2003-Q3	130	130	0	39	69	70	218	32	yes
2003-Q2	110	109	0	124	63	90	246	25	yes
2003-Q1	103	101	0	26	51	88	202	27	yes
2002-Q4	105	104	0	18	51	79	287	36	yes
2002-Q3	122	119	0	29	71	99	225	22	yes
2002-Q2	128	119	0	26	67	87	242	15	yes
2002-Q1	97	93	0	57	47	116	254	6	yes
2001-Q4	106	103	0	25	54	88	228	0	yes
2001-Q3	80	74	0	123	46	105	312	1	yes
2001-Q2	95	93	0	32	50	46	246	4	yes
2001-Q1	102	99	0	30	67	117	366	0	yes
2000-Q4	85	83	0	42	49	171	392	0	yes
2000-Q3	105	103	0	69	68	102	427	1	yes
2000-Q2	108	105	0	68	59	157	623	1	yes
2000-Q1	97	91	0	80	38	192	486	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

3,664 of the 12,936 building permits filed since 2000 (28%) 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 Lone Mountain/USF neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (1,836 filed, 1,363 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (1,645 filed, 1,201 finished; contractors); stairs (790 filed, 562 finished; contractors); deck (406 filed, 276 finished; contractors); roof deck (100 filed, 63 finished; contractors). Other types: 9,544 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Haight Ashbury, Presidio Heights, Inner Richmond; 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.