How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood?

In the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 403 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 405 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 100 days of being issued, down from 129 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	403 issued	0	440 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	405 finished	100	457 finished	129

“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	7	4			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	94	71	0	21	16	18	53	0	too recent
2026-Q2	118	110	0	29	54	16	87	0	too recent
2026-Q1	107	101	0	32	60	69	164	0	too recent
2025-Q4	127	121	0	83	86	87	216	0	too recent
2025-Q3	140	135	0	48	91	64	240	0	too recent
2025-Q2	125	118	0	56	95	84	325	0	too recent
2025-Q1	111	107	0	71	78	76	287	0	too recent
2024-Q4	86	80	0	35	60	72	330	0	too recent
2024-Q3	107	101	0	47	82	80	261	0	yes
2024-Q2	182	176	0	52	143	77	332	1	yes
2024-Q1	120	113	0	37	83	132	370	0	yes
2023-Q4	125	120	0	37	97	122	340	2	yes
2023-Q3	179	174	0	136	136	122	416	32	yes
2023-Q2	168	157	0	77	122	98	474	31	yes
2023-Q1	130	125	0	119	96	118	440	23	yes
2022-Q4	148	139	0	156	103	174	545	32	yes
2022-Q3	150	134	0	100	106	145	430	25	yes
2022-Q2	141	133	0	78	95	140	499	40	yes
2022-Q1	133	121	1	72	89	173	582	28	yes
2021-Q4	133	128	0	168	100	172	558	25	yes
2021-Q3	163	153	0	104	120	164	678	27	yes
2021-Q2	140	134	0	163	104	175	744	27	yes
2021-Q1	153	138	14	214	102	156	788	33	yes
2020-Q4	165	146	32	202	109	182	932	32	yes
2020-Q3	172	155	4	178	100	120	539	52	yes
2020-Q2	68	60	4	34	26	102	225	36	yes
2020-Q1	207	197	0	131	96	170	748	93	yes
2019-Q4	240	225	0	69	117	155	709	104	yes
2019-Q3	293	276	0	42	119	100	573	152	yes
2019-Q2	281	267	0	44	118	124	713	146	yes
2019-Q1	227	219	0	47	113	128	646	97	yes
2018-Q4	243	234	0	115	104	153	712	126	yes
2018-Q3	271	258	0	129	106	168	801	144	yes
2018-Q2	250	242	0	35	123	113	478	114	yes
2018-Q1	246	237	0	66	118	124	997	117	yes
2017-Q4	250	238	0	198	122	136	550	115	yes
2017-Q3	353	327	0	433	177	174	681	134	yes
2017-Q2	251	244	0	101	125	153	679	113	yes
2017-Q1	188	182	0	76	94	136	765	85	yes
2016-Q4	207	196	0	88	81	148	551	112	yes
2016-Q3	284	265	0	263	145	173	707	115	yes
2016-Q2	269	262	0	49	141	141	480	112	yes
2016-Q1	285	280	0	55	154	126	687	120	yes
2015-Q4	301	289	0	145	143	167	569	134	yes
2015-Q3	305	292	0	63	171	138	569	122	yes
2015-Q2	239	229	0	51	133	161	428	85	yes
2015-Q1	266	254	0	30	143	122	460	105	yes
2014-Q4	203	195	0	89	109	124	614	81	yes
2014-Q3	236	224	0	39	126	134	494	93	yes
2014-Q2	242	236	0	33	139	114	463	91	yes
2014-Q1	190	185	0	37	107	126	539	70	yes
2013-Q4	213	206	0	24	126	111	533	77	yes
2013-Q3	197	191	0	20	105	130	435	85	yes
2013-Q2	208	201	0	32	116	103	434	82	yes
2013-Q1	178	173	0	13	109	125	590	62	yes
2012-Q4	164	160	0	18	106	112	542	48	yes
2012-Q3	191	184	0	8	103	124	359	77	yes
2012-Q2	191	184	0	7	103	73	356	77	yes
2012-Q1	159	157	0	23	96	94	460	52	yes
2011-Q4	150	148	0	29	89	85	469	50	yes
2011-Q3	192	187	0	16	114	110	363	62	yes
2011-Q2	210	204	0	12	125	104	383	68	yes
2011-Q1	179	174	0	12	107	110	417	47	yes
2010-Q4	198	194	0	6	111	90	452	77	yes
2010-Q3	242	239	0	15	125	95	371	111	yes
2010-Q2	260	254	0	7	107	127	435	135	yes
2010-Q1	199	192	0	15	96	86	526	89	yes
2009-Q4	210	207	0	7	113	102	395	89	yes
2009-Q3	222	215	0	8	119	130	471	87	yes
2009-Q2	223	222	0	18	125	98	455	77	yes
2009-Q1	197	192	0	11	104	83	359	72	yes
2008-Q4	209	206	0	8	112	128	446	85	yes
2008-Q3	326	316	0	0	100	91	733	196	yes
2008-Q2	337	327	0	11	112	132	421	188	yes
2008-Q1	251	241	0	7	88	106	401	141	yes
2007-Q4	246	238	0	47	118	120	606	106	yes
2007-Q3	257	246	0	3	108	92	423	120	yes
2007-Q2	262	259	0	0	110	108	284	128	yes
2007-Q1	274	270	0	0	98	111	445	133	yes
2006-Q4	243	242	0	0	84	94	337	122	yes
2006-Q3	273	273	0	0	139	102	427	75	yes
2006-Q2	235	234	0	0	123	90	253	63	yes
2006-Q1	195	189	0	16	94	105	308	55	yes
2005-Q4	195	192	0	0	90	123	384	61	yes
2005-Q3	240	235	0	0	107	80	315	65	yes
2005-Q2	265	260	0	2	128	107	360	80	yes
2005-Q1	176	173	0	0	78	114	314	55	yes
2004-Q4	184	183	0	0	83	87	435	59	yes
2004-Q3	206	201	0	0	79	57	285	76	yes
2004-Q2	232	224	0	49	98	74	315	78	yes
2004-Q1	216	210	0	31	97	88	428	67	yes
2003-Q4	184	180	0	46	90	91	246	60	yes
2003-Q3	223	219	0	0	105	94	336	79	yes
2003-Q2	223	220	0	6	110	74	236	75	yes
2003-Q1	214	211	0	25	120	74	275	64	yes
2002-Q4	201	195	0	0	94	90	330	78	yes
2002-Q3	205	200	0	24	105	88	475	69	yes
2002-Q2	229	223	0	50	101	77	440	38	yes
2002-Q1	187	185	0	50	87	99	369	12	yes
2001-Q4	152	150	0	37	64	72	218	5	yes
2001-Q3	163	158	0	28	67	99	216	6	yes
2001-Q2	161	160	0	56	81	123	367	2	yes
2001-Q1	177	176	0	146	83	108	338	1	yes
2000-Q4	161	155	0	76	77	118	381	2	yes
2000-Q3	180	177	0	60	78	95	286	1	yes
2000-Q2	179	172	0	72	75	103	503	2	yes
2000-Q1	189	182	0	119	66	142	492	2	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

7,199 of the 21,652 building permits filed since 2000 (33%) 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 Haight Ashbury neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (3,075 filed, 2,147 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (2,766 filed, 1,877 finished; contractors); stairs (1,550 filed, 1,064 finished; contractors); deck (751 filed, 494 finished; contractors); roof deck (170 filed, 96 finished; contractors). Other types: 15,744 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Lone Mountain/USF, Castro/Upper Market, Hayes Valley; 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.