How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Twin Peaks neighborhood?

In the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 202 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 211 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 102 days of being issued, down from 118 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	202 issued	0	226 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	211 finished	102	190 finished	118

“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	4	2			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	55	47	0	14	6	24	36	0	too recent
2026-Q2	51	46	0	42	26	54	108	0	too recent
2026-Q1	61	57	0	38	32	27	73	0	too recent
2025-Q4	63	52	0	37	32	51	259	0	too recent
2025-Q3	55	54	0	19	39	67	235	0	too recent
2025-Q2	56	55	0	54	46	88	259	0	too recent
2025-Q1	63	62	0	83	46	86	292	0	too recent
2024-Q4	57	55	0	40	35	72	251	0	too recent
2024-Q3	68	66	0	40	58	75	321	0	yes
2024-Q2	62	61	0	58	49	103	351	0	yes
2024-Q1	62	60	0	99	52	120	315	0	yes
2023-Q4	72	69	0	50	52	96	468	1	yes
2023-Q3	50	46	0	108	36	61	474	11	yes
2023-Q2	73	65	1	152	52	116	426	13	yes
2023-Q1	72	70	0	23	60	98	343	5	yes
2022-Q4	60	55	0	208	42	194	530	13	yes
2022-Q3	78	78	0	137	64	136	628	12	yes
2022-Q2	56	53	0	76	41	153	909	11	yes
2022-Q1	51	49	0	104	39	129	423	8	yes
2021-Q4	58	57	0	28	53	154	655	3	yes
2021-Q3	69	64	0	147	50	164	658	12	yes
2021-Q2	67	58	0	158	37	194	716	18	yes
2021-Q1	70	60	0	149	45	134	721	22	yes
2020-Q4	73	65	2	216	53	133	567	12	yes
2020-Q3	68	64	4	284	45	135	602	14	yes
2020-Q2	34	31	6	206	20	78	316	12	yes
2020-Q1	77	67	0	107	42	126	321	24	yes
2019-Q4	68	63	0	72	39	184	462	21	yes
2019-Q3	111	105	0	32	65	91	727	39	yes
2019-Q2	89	81	0	61	49	106	434	28	yes
2019-Q1	72	72	0	75	45	112	489	25	yes
2018-Q4	72	69	0	20	46	86	490	23	yes
2018-Q3	91	91	0	50	57	187	609	31	yes
2018-Q2	92	86	0	33	62	132	443	19	yes
2018-Q1	77	75	0	38	51	149	604	24	yes
2017-Q4	66	65	0	143	38	138	488	23	yes
2017-Q3	121	117	0	339	75	172	515	37	yes
2017-Q2	114	108	0	128	68	168	692	38	yes
2017-Q1	93	89	0	100	57	174	677	30	yes
2016-Q4	89	86	0	192	57	176	625	26	yes
2016-Q3	98	97	0	76	61	106	581	31	yes
2016-Q2	95	92	0	513	60	144	788	28	yes
2016-Q1	76	72	0	106	43	127	498	24	yes
2015-Q4	81	79	0	30	51	129	498	25	yes
2015-Q3	85	81	0	147	54	126	751	22	yes
2015-Q2	72	69	0	93	46	146	653	22	yes
2015-Q1	84	81	0	21	60	147	522	20	yes
2014-Q4	84	80	0	50	57	141	381	20	yes
2014-Q3	62	59	0	22	37	140	521	17	yes
2014-Q2	60	59	0	55	42	130	625	14	yes
2014-Q1	55	55	0	96	40	88	468	12	yes
2013-Q4	68	66	0	144	44	182	551	19	yes
2013-Q3	69	65	0	12	45	84	494	16	yes
2013-Q2	60	58	0	378	46	72	534	11	yes
2013-Q1	66	66	0	10	49	160	440	14	yes
2012-Q4	76	76	0	13	61	62	497	11	yes
2012-Q3	79	77	0	7	58	84	399	19	yes
2012-Q2	67	66	0	7	44	78	303	16	yes
2012-Q1	54	52	0	60	35	131	419	12	yes
2011-Q4	61	60	0	39	44	80	317	14	yes
2011-Q3	61	60	0	4	42	84	314	15	yes
2011-Q2	71	70	0	22	52	121	453	10	yes
2011-Q1	60	57	0	5	40	60	286	15	yes
2010-Q4	81	76	0	14	53	98	286	19	yes
2010-Q3	71	71	0	6	46	57	318	20	yes
2010-Q2	63	62	0	54	44	121	521	14	yes
2010-Q1	36	36	0	14	20	58	177	8	yes
2009-Q4	64	62	0	6	45	79	310	11	yes
2009-Q3	57	55	0	2	34	44	378	19	yes
2009-Q2	68	65	0	7	40	76	350	21	yes
2009-Q1	59	56	0	42	36	74	713	16	yes
2008-Q4	76	70	0	10	46	103	320	19	yes
2008-Q3	63	63	0	0	31	102	225	22	yes
2008-Q2	70	68	0	0	35	119	315	23	yes
2008-Q1	66	63	0	7	43	93	231	14	yes
2007-Q4	65	62	0	49	33	92	395	21	yes
2007-Q3	71	70	0	1	40	94	306	18	yes
2007-Q2	76	75	0	1	47	93	357	16	yes
2007-Q1	66	62	0	0	32	75	267	16	yes
2006-Q4	69	67	0	0	42	86	186	17	yes
2006-Q3	85	85	0	0	53	68	309	14	yes
2006-Q2	72	72	0	0	47	67	242	10	yes
2006-Q1	58	58	0	0	36	98	332	10	yes
2005-Q4	54	54	0	0	28	80	225	17	yes
2005-Q3	80	77	0	0	42	113	284	20	yes
2005-Q2	63	63	0	1	38	126	403	12	yes
2005-Q1	58	55	0	13	34	164	334	13	yes
2004-Q4	56	54	0	64	21	104	511	20	yes
2004-Q3	66	66	0	0	33	55	431	15	yes
2004-Q2	89	87	0	0	45	77	248	18	yes
2004-Q1	68	66	0	0	34	101	318	18	yes
2003-Q4	60	59	0	1	25	105	232	20	yes
2003-Q3	82	81	0	102	41	107	321	19	yes
2003-Q2	58	58	0	82	35	76	269	14	yes
2003-Q1	51	49	0	35	25	85	341	18	yes
2002-Q4	60	56	0	500	40	84	471	12	yes
2002-Q3	72	72	0	0	40	93	296	26	yes
2002-Q2	64	64	0	20	32	108	296	9	yes
2002-Q1	42	39	0	112	25	95	429	1	yes
2001-Q4	50	50	0	103	22	79	335	3	yes
2001-Q3	61	59	0	112	34	96	401	1	yes
2001-Q2	46	44	0	251	30	150	501	2	yes
2001-Q1	46	45	0	32	21	161	582	1	yes
2000-Q4	57	53	0	66	28	157	430	0	yes
2000-Q3	59	57	0	2	27	84	333	0	yes
2000-Q2	75	75	0	43	36	119	626	0	yes
2000-Q1	62	60	0	46	25	161	663	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

1,550 of the 7,299 building permits filed since 2000 (21%) 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 Twin Peaks neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (1,241 filed, 921 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (958 filed, 702 finished; contractors); deck (507 filed, 341 finished; contractors); stairs (358 filed, 243 finished; contractors); roof deck (76 filed, 45 finished; contractors). Other types: 5,002 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Noe Valley, Castro/Upper Market, Haight Ashbury; 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.