How long do kitchen remodel permits take in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood?

In the Marina neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 143 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, up from 0 days a year earlier. Of the 113 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 203 days of being issued, up from 156 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	143 issued	1	141 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	113 finished	203	126 finished	156

“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 176 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	2	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	41	32	0	35	1			0	too recent
2026-Q2	38	36	0	17	11	82	124	0	too recent
2026-Q1	42	40	2	74	21	111	207	0	too recent
2025-Q4	36	35	2	77	22	90	238	0	too recent
2025-Q3	36	36	0	30	25	124	222	0	too recent
2025-Q2	45	45	0	46	32	177	314	0	too recent
2025-Q1	30	29	1	49	21	130	365	0	too recent
2024-Q4	31	31	0	101	21	149	364	0	too recent
2024-Q3	40	37	0	70	28	204	422	0	yes
2024-Q2	40	38	0	41	36	154	372	0	yes
2024-Q1	34	33	0	107	26	210	435	0	yes
2023-Q4	30	28	1	113	23	337	595	0	yes
2023-Q3	33	33	0	34	30	206	653	2	yes
2023-Q2	32	31	0	271	25	168	707	3	yes
2023-Q1	33	31	0	24	30	169	850	0	yes
2022-Q4	49	48	1	65	41	143	490	6	yes
2022-Q3	49	39	0	72	35	169	389	3	yes
2022-Q2	33	30	1	43	24	225	423	6	yes
2022-Q1	49	49	0	24	46	160	354	3	yes
2021-Q4	43	39	0	129	29	196	603	9	yes
2021-Q3	56	56	0	44	50	198	412	5	yes
2021-Q2	56	56	0	48	49	196	703	7	yes
2021-Q1	61	61	0	140	46	254	552	9	yes
2020-Q4	86	83	36	200	64	190	495	18	yes
2020-Q3	69	65	3	116	45	190	543	15	yes
2020-Q2	30	27	3	15	21	117	293	4	yes
2020-Q1	53	48	0	187	42	192	520	8	yes
2019-Q4	40	40	2	30	31	210	470	9	yes
2019-Q3	55	54	0	96	42	160	922	9	yes
2019-Q2	50	47	0	31	39	153	608	6	yes
2019-Q1	33	31	1	72	25	127	476	5	yes
2018-Q4	49	46	0	38	39	162	720	7	yes
2018-Q3	49	45	0	68	37	169	578	5	yes
2018-Q2	55	53	1	53	41	164	621	10	yes
2018-Q1	45	42	0	39	35	131	336	7	yes
2017-Q4	43	42	1	332	34	176	891	6	yes
2017-Q3	47	46	0	168	37	137	747	9	yes
2017-Q2	60	59	2	210	46	170	814	6	yes
2017-Q1	44	42	0	33	37	176	628	3	yes
2016-Q4	44	41	0	51	34	150	456	5	yes
2016-Q3	48	47	0	91	43	160	377	4	yes
2016-Q2	56	54	1	89	42	149	531	10	yes
2016-Q1	46	45	0	41	40	220	535	3	yes
2015-Q4	36	34	0	198	26	181	642	5	yes
2015-Q3	40	39	0	94	35	202	632	4	yes
2015-Q2	43	42	0	66	36	166	471	5	yes
2015-Q1	55	54	0	41	43	210	637	9	yes
2014-Q4	36	34	0	31	28	146	651	6	yes
2014-Q3	42	42	0	86	29	99	430	10	yes
2014-Q2	60	59	0	68	54	159	856	4	yes
2014-Q1	42	42	0	73	35	132	296	5	yes
2013-Q4	45	42	0	33	34	144	390	5	yes
2013-Q3	30	30	0	156	23	202	580	7	yes
2013-Q2	51	50	0	64	43	152	381	3	yes
2013-Q1	45	45	0	5	36	112	372	4	yes
2012-Q4	27	25	0	57	23	205	614	2	yes
2012-Q3	37	36	0	18	31	154	578	3	yes
2012-Q2	44	43	0	13	29	117	451	11	yes
2012-Q1	24	24	0	5	19	126	422	4	yes
2011-Q4	45	42	0	83	38	135	496	3	yes
2011-Q3	59	58	0	112	40	147	422	4	yes
2011-Q2	38	38	0	14	30	171	464	2	yes
2011-Q1	38	35	0	16	30	166	495	1	yes
2010-Q4	29	28	0	8	20	150	232	6	yes
2010-Q3	34	34	0	68	29	146	477	3	yes
2010-Q2	33	32	0	4	31	133	349	0	yes
2010-Q1	51	48	0	5	38	113	278	3	yes
2009-Q4	38	34	0	20	29	121	450	1	yes
2009-Q3	33	31	0	9	21	143	312	5	yes
2009-Q2	34	31	0	1	26	116	364	2	yes
2009-Q1	28	27	0	95	20	158	397	1	yes
2008-Q4	27	27	0	14	16	122	300	1	yes
2008-Q3	45	44	0	7	31	160	384	3	yes
2008-Q2	51	51	0	6	33	153	364	1	yes
2008-Q1	35	33	0	8	25	134	338	4	yes
2007-Q4	42	42	0	11	32	127	339	2	yes
2007-Q3	39	37	0	11	24	112	319	1	yes
2007-Q2	43	42	0	0	28	159	335	1	yes
2007-Q1	45	44	0	53	30	107	388	3	yes
2006-Q4	27	27	0	39	24	118	346	2	yes
2006-Q3	29	29	0	0	19	186	316	4	yes
2006-Q2	52	51	0	146	36	223	343	3	yes
2006-Q1	25	25	0	0	19	131	313	0	yes
2005-Q4	25	25	0	0	15	231	414	2	yes
2005-Q3	35	35	0	0	25	189	474	2	yes
2005-Q2	28	28	0	0	16	207	434	1	yes
2005-Q1	33	31	0	0	20	140	472	0	yes
2004-Q4	22	22	0	77	17	179	513	1	yes
2004-Q3	29	29	0	7	26	182	470	1	yes
2004-Q2	30	30	0	0	25	156	373	1	yes
2004-Q1	23	23	0	0	17	144	389	1	yes
2003-Q4	22	22	0	0	15	93	280	0	yes
2003-Q3	29	29	0	0	19	170	468	1	yes
2003-Q2	33	32	0	0	23	151	363	1	yes
2003-Q1	32	32	0	0	26	93	284	0	yes
2002-Q4	23	22	0	0	9	92	623	0	yes
2002-Q3	29	28	0	10	20	126	341	2	yes
2002-Q2	37	37	0	0	24	127	342	2	yes
2002-Q1	32	32	0	18	24	109	296	1	yes
2001-Q4	28	28	0	0	18	127	237	0	yes
2001-Q3	25	25	0	38	17	83	202	0	yes
2001-Q2	20	20	0	145	10	180	503	0	yes
2001-Q1	28	25	0	55	16	120	362	0	yes
2000-Q4	27	27	0	95	17	148	336	0	yes
2000-Q3	41	40	0	11	23	217	561	0	yes
2000-Q2	45	44	0	128	30	141	426	0	yes
2000-Q1	32	31	0	36	16	131	342	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

361 of the 4,226 kitchen remodel permits filed since 2000 (9%) 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. 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 Marina neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (4,620 filed, 3,379 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (4,226 filed, 3,107 finished; contractors); stairs (1,549 filed, 1,069 finished; contractors); deck (939 filed, 610 finished; contractors); roof deck (573 filed, 329 finished; contractors). Other types: 23,123 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Marina neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, Japantown; 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.