How long do kitchen remodel permits take in San Francisco's Sunset/Parkside neighborhood?

In the Sunset/Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 287 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 2 days, up from 1 day a year earlier. Of the 252 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 202 days of being issued, up from 194 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	287 issued	2	281 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	252 finished	202	230 finished	194

“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	7	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	81	53	1	31	1			0	too recent
2026-Q2	90	82	4	59	16	80	138	0	too recent
2026-Q1	84	76	0	44	30	108	200	0	too recent
2025-Q4	86	76	2	80	53	140	257	0	too recent
2025-Q3	89	81	3	106	56	161	272	0	too recent
2025-Q2	80	78	2	59	58	192	323	0	too recent
2025-Q1	54	53	0	89	36	163	321	0	too recent
2024-Q4	71	69	1	124	56	172	346	0	too recent
2024-Q3	93	90	4	79	69	210	455	0	yes
2024-Q2	76	73	1	83	61	201	516	0	yes
2024-Q1	67	67	1	53	60	203	435	0	yes
2023-Q4	68	67	2	43	62	176	628	1	yes
2023-Q3	82	75	4	53	70	264	706	9	yes
2023-Q2	74	68	1	159	58	192	437	11	yes
2023-Q1	50	46	0	42	40	158	400	6	yes
2022-Q4	80	73	7	126	62	194	482	9	yes
2022-Q3	101	100	1	99	85	175	574	9	yes
2022-Q2	91	87	12	90	83	272	665	4	yes
2022-Q1	91	82	6	856	65	257	736	8	yes
2021-Q4	101	96	6	200	85	270	533	9	yes
2021-Q3	92	90	0	37	79	246	609	11	yes
2021-Q2	90	84	0	138	67	213	730	14	yes
2021-Q1	96	86	0	214	73	357	700	13	yes
2020-Q4	100	87	49	307	73	274	620	16	yes
2020-Q3	73	70	10	310	55	219	567	12	yes
2020-Q2	21	20	10	28	17	141	780	3	yes
2020-Q1	45	39	0	292	34	274	637	3	yes
2019-Q4	102	88	4	427	72	207	676	14	yes
2019-Q3	87	83	5	154	70	314	685	11	yes
2019-Q2	80	76	1	98	64	205	639	9	yes
2019-Q1	104	95	7	210	84	225	619	12	yes
2018-Q4	102	95	1	122	82	208	659	11	yes
2018-Q3	79	77	1	131	65	189	1,122	10	yes
2018-Q2	81	74	0	187	62	204	734	11	yes
2018-Q1	80	74	4	198	58	221	663	13	yes
2017-Q4	89	89	0	150	77	206	633	10	yes
2017-Q3	84	81	5	281	65	207	553	13	yes
2017-Q2	96	93	0	93	80	170	412	8	yes
2017-Q1	87	86	0	57	75	176	430	7	yes
2016-Q4	76	73	1	84	60	157	376	12	yes
2016-Q3	84	82	0	126	68	160	344	12	yes
2016-Q2	72	71	0	74	62	152	444	6	yes
2016-Q1	92	88	0	56	76	154	358	10	yes
2015-Q4	78	77	1	220	61	187	377	11	yes
2015-Q3	84	81	0	169	69	169	423	8	yes
2015-Q2	93	88	2	456	68	159	482	15	yes
2015-Q1	88	87	1	113	65	226	412	14	yes
2014-Q4	91	89	1	286	64	279	717	23	yes
2014-Q3	84	79	2	80	63	195	525	14	yes
2014-Q2	82	80	0	132	73	143	546	7	yes
2014-Q1	52	52	0	12	43	120	418	5	yes
2013-Q4	57	54	0	42	44	145	363	8	yes
2013-Q3	93	92	0	16	77	125	364	13	yes
2013-Q2	74	71	0	19	65	93	312	5	yes
2013-Q1	66	65	0	8	53	110	335	8	yes
2012-Q4	60	59	0	16	50	152	377	8	yes
2012-Q3	87	85	0	22	74	156	420	10	yes
2012-Q2	60	57	0	26	42	152	581	12	yes
2012-Q1	46	45	0	11	38	160	524	5	yes
2011-Q4	44	43	0	3	33	127	259	7	yes
2011-Q3	55	55	0	13	52	108	340	1	yes
2011-Q2	62	57	0	10	49	112	362	7	yes
2011-Q1	50	48	0	6	41	116	313	4	yes
2010-Q4	52	52	0	6	45	119	333	3	yes
2010-Q3	45	44	0	10	39	111	357	5	yes
2010-Q2	58	58	0	11	46	147	354	7	yes
2010-Q1	48	45	0	6	39	120	332	5	yes
2009-Q4	50	49	0	4	42	129	342	6	yes
2009-Q3	50	49	0	18	41	142	334	4	yes
2009-Q2	56	55	0	9	46	130	344	5	yes
2009-Q1	65	65	0	3	54	94	286	4	yes
2008-Q4	68	67	0	9	51	118	322	6	yes
2008-Q3	66	66	0	4	57	141	228	4	yes
2008-Q2	86	84	0	6	65	134	313	13	yes
2008-Q1	67	66	0	4	58	119	271	5	yes
2007-Q4	64	63	0	2	48	122	335	8	yes
2007-Q3	90	90	0	1	70	156	369	14	yes
2007-Q2	74	70	0	0	55	142	263	11	yes
2007-Q1	60	60	0	0	43	157	337	10	yes
2006-Q4	67	65	0	0	49	137	308	9	yes
2006-Q3	59	58	0	0	48	136	301	4	yes
2006-Q2	66	66	0	0	49	123	269	12	yes
2006-Q1	63	63	0	0	46	132	340	12	yes
2005-Q4	61	61	0	0	44	147	337	10	yes
2005-Q3	61	61	0	0	39	122	362	12	yes
2005-Q2	73	72	0	0	55	134	332	10	yes
2005-Q1	50	50	0	6	32	108	339	9	yes
2004-Q4	56	56	0	0	39	103	198	4	yes
2004-Q3	71	69	0	0	51	91	295	6	yes
2004-Q2	60	60	0	0	46	117	334	8	yes
2004-Q1	53	53	0	0	40	132	411	7	yes
2003-Q4	49	49	0	0	40	112	218	6	yes
2003-Q3	46	44	0	0	27	171	247	11	yes
2003-Q2	41	41	0	19	32	105	220	7	yes
2003-Q1	53	53	0	4	37	97	212	7	yes
2002-Q4	42	41	0	31	33	133	361	4	yes
2002-Q3	57	57	0	0	39	109	386	12	yes
2002-Q2	41	41	0	41	25	119	239	5	yes
2002-Q1	33	32	0	0	24	102	246	1	yes
2001-Q4	39	39	0	14	26	158	265	0	yes
2001-Q3	45	45	0	0	30	100	242	0	yes
2001-Q2	28	28	0	10	17	125	313	0	yes
2001-Q1	37	36	0	0	26	117	441	0	yes
2000-Q4	24	24	0	166	17	179	335	0	yes
2000-Q3	40	40	0	0	25	111	274	1	yes
2000-Q2	35	35	0	22	25	120	310	0	yes
2000-Q1	30	29	0	46	13	158	488	1	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

760 of the 7,313 kitchen remodel permits filed since 2000 (10%) 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 Sunset/Parkside neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (10,452 filed, 8,088 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (7,313 filed, 5,521 finished; contractors); stairs (2,879 filed, 2,023 finished; contractors); deck (1,899 filed, 1,354 finished; contractors); roof deck (201 filed, 116 finished; contractors). Other types: 33,821 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Sunset/Parkside neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Inner Sunset, Golden Gate Park, Lakeshore; 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.