How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood?

In the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 157 bathroom 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 123 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 158 days of being issued, up from 132 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	157 issued	1	170 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	123 finished	158	121 finished	132

“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 169 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	1	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	46	33	1	37	4			0	too recent
2026-Q2	53	49	0	31	13	73	115	0	too recent
2026-Q1	38	36	0	73	19	101	189	0	too recent
2025-Q4	43	39	17	248	13	154	325	0	too recent
2025-Q3	50	47	0	50	29	119	217	0	too recent
2025-Q2	44	43	2	99	27	154	308	0	too recent
2025-Q1	45	44	0	39	30	162	299	0	too recent
2024-Q4	36	36	0	60	26	144	352	0	too recent
2024-Q3	38	38	2	66	24	150	329	0	yes
2024-Q2	44	44	0	38	38	192	387	0	yes
2024-Q1	35	34	0	18	30	120	392	0	yes
2023-Q4	39	39	0	88	31	154	528	0	yes
2023-Q3	33	31	0	27	27	203	410	5	yes
2023-Q2	34	34	2	237	27	108	384	3	yes
2023-Q1	26	25	0	181	21	135	657	4	yes
2022-Q4	58	55	0	78	46	134	400	8	yes
2022-Q3	32	32	0	67	27	184	806	2	yes
2022-Q2	42	42	1	139	37	308	912	5	yes
2022-Q1	60	60	4	44	54	172	685	6	yes
2021-Q4	57	55	0	39	46	234	592	4	yes
2021-Q3	60	60	0	50	51	199	655	9	yes
2021-Q2	84	81	0	67	59	198	673	17	yes
2021-Q1	87	83	0	128	65	169	553	14	yes
2020-Q4	72	65	19	136	53	206	598	13	yes
2020-Q3	62	59	6	98	47	193	683	7	yes
2020-Q2	24	24	5	110	18	250	915	3	yes
2020-Q1	44	37	0	234	32	194	835	6	yes
2019-Q4	55	50	1	45	37	217	724	9	yes
2019-Q3	57	56	1	50	43	264	670	11	yes
2019-Q2	55	52	4	46	43	191	779	9	yes
2019-Q1	42	42	0	76	39	167	434	2	yes
2018-Q4	59	56	0	42	45	185	676	9	yes
2018-Q3	52	51	0	39	39	184	714	10	yes
2018-Q2	48	43	1	38	37	136	465	5	yes
2018-Q1	61	58	0	30	51	162	666	7	yes
2017-Q4	37	37	0	98	27	218	644	5	yes
2017-Q3	62	56	0	88	48	212	1,130	6	yes
2017-Q2	61	58	0	121	46	234	678	13	yes
2017-Q1	55	53	0	38	38	132	274	9	yes
2016-Q4	44	42	0	181	35	140	1,137	4	yes
2016-Q3	39	38	0	112	33	184	457	3	yes
2016-Q2	48	47	0	26	40	186	574	7	yes
2016-Q1	50	47	0	29	39	112	421	7	yes
2015-Q4	44	44	0	41	32	142	696	8	yes
2015-Q3	61	60	0	94	48	208	538	9	yes
2015-Q2	61	60	2	101	52	180	535	3	yes
2015-Q1	63	61	0	188	49	238	517	7	yes
2014-Q4	53	51	0	43	40	244	723	9	yes
2014-Q3	67	64	0	26	42	209	588	14	yes
2014-Q2	56	54	0	109	46	208	740	5	yes
2014-Q1	50	48	0	21	44	124	398	2	yes
2013-Q4	68	65	2	167	53	212	981	5	yes
2013-Q3	53	51	0	69	39	245	869	9	yes
2013-Q2	50	50	0	22	43	182	423	4	yes
2013-Q1	64	63	0	17	52	150	368	8	yes
2012-Q4	45	44	0	16	30	142	502	8	yes
2012-Q3	47	43	0	20	36	124	356	6	yes
2012-Q2	65	65	0	10	57	173	526	3	yes
2012-Q1	46	46	0	93	36	105	486	7	yes
2011-Q4	30	30	0	125	23	189	422	4	yes
2011-Q3	54	53	0	63	44	139	394	5	yes
2011-Q2	44	44	0	52	36	144	474	4	yes
2011-Q1	40	40	0	26	34	193	437	2	yes
2010-Q4	38	38	1	79	30	192	598	3	yes
2010-Q3	36	34	0	179	32	171	404	0	yes
2010-Q2	61	61	0	9	54	209	977	2	yes
2010-Q1	49	49	0	38	38	174	486	7	yes
2009-Q4	38	37	0	63	28	130	439	2	yes
2009-Q3	36	35	2	43	34	166	460	1	yes
2009-Q2	26	26	0	10	22	143	727	2	yes
2009-Q1	43	41	0	14	36	136	340	4	yes
2008-Q4	23	23	0	6	17	156	311	2	yes
2008-Q3	44	43	0	15	32	206	489	3	yes
2008-Q2	66	64	0	7	50	139	353	5	yes
2008-Q1	51	51	0	14	33	109	371	6	yes
2007-Q4	50	49	0	163	36	210	389	6	yes
2007-Q3	64	64	0	2	45	126	342	5	yes
2007-Q2	73	73	0	16	53	145	417	6	yes
2007-Q1	72	72	0	0	56	150	308	3	yes
2006-Q4	56	56	0	2	34	151	316	2	yes
2006-Q3	63	61	0	0	30	172	442	10	yes
2006-Q2	50	50	0	3	34	186	471	5	yes
2006-Q1	45	45	0	0	26	362	483	2	yes
2005-Q4	33	33	0	0	23	216	454	0	yes
2005-Q3	35	35	0	34	22	250	378	1	yes
2005-Q2	47	46	0	0	28	164	353	1	yes
2005-Q1	29	29	0	0	17	239	422	1	yes
2004-Q4	32	31	0	0	23	140	296	0	yes
2004-Q3	26	26	0	0	16	146	264	1	yes
2004-Q2	44	44	0	38	30	201	395	3	yes
2004-Q1	34	34	0	0	28	176	330	2	yes
2003-Q4	27	27	0	0	19	225	362	0	yes
2003-Q3	28	28	0	23	20	170	353	1	yes
2003-Q2	29	29	0	0	20	211	522	3	yes
2003-Q1	28	28	0	28	22	214	606	1	yes
2002-Q4	26	26	0	5	19	213	432	1	yes
2002-Q3	27	26	0	0	11	185	476	4	yes
2002-Q2	34	34	0	1	16	192	354	3	yes
2002-Q1	27	27	0	23	18	187	331	2	yes
2001-Q4	18	18	0	51	11	153	350	0	yes
2001-Q3	17	17	0	121	10	180	400	0	yes
2001-Q2	21	20	0	57	15	127	745	0	yes
2001-Q1	26	26	0	41	14	258	490	0	yes
2000-Q4	18	17	0	0	11	242	415	0	yes
2000-Q3	21	20	0	19	8	240	401	0	yes
2000-Q2	36	35	0	0	19	183	455	0	yes
2000-Q1	25	23	0	17	13	169	391	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

445 of the 4,845 bathroom 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 Pacific Heights neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (4,845 filed, 3,523 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (4,365 filed, 3,192 finished; contractors); stairs (1,514 filed, 952 finished; contractors); deck (949 filed, 637 finished; contractors); roof deck (336 filed, 200 finished; contractors). Other types: 24,826 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Japantown, Marina, Western Addition; 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.