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

In the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 128 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 91 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 139 days of being issued, down from 141 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	128 issued	1	137 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	91 finished	139	97 finished	141

“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	1	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	40	29	0	18	2			0	too recent
2026-Q2	35	32	1	31	8	80	104	0	too recent
2026-Q1	38	36	0	84	20	80	180	0	too recent
2025-Q4	32	31	21	258	6	122	255	0	too recent
2025-Q3	46	45	1	27	27	128	293	0	too recent
2025-Q2	39	38	0	59	23	161	325	0	too recent
2025-Q1	33	31	0	28	24	175	401	0	too recent
2024-Q4	24	23	0	77	17	177	305	0	too recent
2024-Q3	39	37	0	53	26	112	307	0	yes
2024-Q2	34	34	0	42	29	202	418	0	yes
2024-Q1	20	20	0	25	16	128	450	0	yes
2023-Q4	26	26	0	90	20	167	683	0	yes
2023-Q3	24	23	0	32	18	121	318	5	yes
2023-Q2	31	31	7	164	25	126	582	3	yes
2023-Q1	23	22	0	74	18	139	666	3	yes
2022-Q4	43	41	19	78	36	151	358	4	yes
2022-Q3	44	44	0	82	34	197	744	6	yes
2022-Q2	39	39	1	141	30	239	845	8	yes
2022-Q1	58	57	5	62	47	176	545	9	yes
2021-Q4	51	48	0	48	45	219	514	4	yes
2021-Q3	48	48	0	49	40	180	719	5	yes
2021-Q2	75	71	0	72	53	204	868	12	yes
2021-Q1	76	72	0	124	57	189	397	11	yes
2020-Q4	65	64	0	131	55	192	557	7	yes
2020-Q3	61	59	4	77	47	164	493	7	yes
2020-Q2	22	21	6	121	19	239	904	1	yes
2020-Q1	39	36	0	238	29	179	854	6	yes
2019-Q4	36	34	2	48	26	214	613	5	yes
2019-Q3	52	51	0	69	38	204	558	12	yes
2019-Q2	44	43	1	43	39	186	794	4	yes
2019-Q1	37	37	0	68	33	166	305	2	yes
2018-Q4	50	49	1	42	40	197	685	10	yes
2018-Q3	50	49	2	83	38	180	654	9	yes
2018-Q2	45	42	5	61	34	140	905	7	yes
2018-Q1	50	48	0	27	41	156	370	6	yes
2017-Q4	45	44	0	156	32	188	642	9	yes
2017-Q3	55	51	0	33	44	192	848	6	yes
2017-Q2	57	55	0	79	42	234	546	11	yes
2017-Q1	52	51	0	162	36	134	896	7	yes
2016-Q4	47	45	1	148	40	148	819	3	yes
2016-Q3	39	39	0	49	34	175	450	4	yes
2016-Q2	35	35	0	19	29	169	374	5	yes
2016-Q1	44	43	0	12	33	126	521	7	yes
2015-Q4	39	38	0	30	30	143	471	6	yes
2015-Q3	57	57	0	86	45	204	591	8	yes
2015-Q2	55	55	0	79	46	178	581	4	yes
2015-Q1	52	51	0	49	44	222	474	5	yes
2014-Q4	43	41	0	43	29	258	501	9	yes
2014-Q3	59	57	0	27	38	234	576	11	yes
2014-Q2	53	53	0	29	45	181	540	6	yes
2014-Q1	48	46	0	15	40	120	312	4	yes
2013-Q4	54	54	0	72	47	209	649	2	yes
2013-Q3	46	44	0	105	36	218	933	7	yes
2013-Q2	41	41	0	11	39	182	387	1	yes
2013-Q1	58	57	0	29	45	151	353	8	yes
2012-Q4	47	45	0	19	32	146	526	9	yes
2012-Q3	46	42	0	19	34	112	363	6	yes
2012-Q2	56	56	0	10	48	168	430	2	yes
2012-Q1	43	42	0	82	33	132	401	6	yes
2011-Q4	30	28	0	48	23	165	422	3	yes
2011-Q3	41	40	0	14	33	106	396	4	yes
2011-Q2	33	33	0	127	25	210	460	5	yes
2011-Q1	34	33	0	13	31	132	323	0	yes
2010-Q4	33	32	0	68	23	252	509	3	yes
2010-Q3	28	26	0	96	21	183	592	4	yes
2010-Q2	49	48	0	19	44	200	977	1	yes
2010-Q1	42	42	0	24	34	197	524	4	yes
2009-Q4	24	23	0	5	16	132	488	2	yes
2009-Q3	24	23	0	75	22	150	562	1	yes
2009-Q2	22	21	0	5	18	146	345	2	yes
2009-Q1	37	37	0	32	29	106	376	6	yes
2008-Q4	24	24	0	0	17	99	290	4	yes
2008-Q3	37	37	0	1	30	163	380	5	yes
2008-Q2	50	50	0	6	35	128	332	5	yes
2008-Q1	45	44	0	31	30	122	372	4	yes
2007-Q4	51	49	0	168	35	217	352	4	yes
2007-Q3	48	48	0	1	31	116	238	4	yes
2007-Q2	49	48	0	9	37	162	338	4	yes
2007-Q1	56	56	0	0	45	135	293	4	yes
2006-Q4	54	54	0	0	37	171	320	2	yes
2006-Q3	51	50	0	0	29	175	446	9	yes
2006-Q2	42	42	0	0	31	147	480	1	yes
2006-Q1	37	37	0	0	30	258	483	0	yes
2005-Q4	38	37	0	0	25	207	393	1	yes
2005-Q3	32	32	0	0	23	203	379	0	yes
2005-Q2	31	31	0	0	18	176	375	0	yes
2005-Q1	31	31	0	0	21	218	433	0	yes
2004-Q4	24	23	0	206	16	148	328	0	yes
2004-Q3	24	23	0	0	14	150	266	1	yes
2004-Q2	35	35	0	103	24	174	388	0	yes
2004-Q1	42	41	0	0	30	169	364	2	yes
2003-Q4	34	34	0	34	24	206	376	2	yes
2003-Q3	37	37	0	0	25	148	294	0	yes
2003-Q2	36	36	0	34	28	174	389	1	yes
2003-Q1	33	33	0	0	26	210	538	0	yes
2002-Q4	25	24	0	0	18	132	298	1	yes
2002-Q3	43	42	0	0	27	168	316	5	yes
2002-Q2	37	37	0	1	19	196	432	2	yes
2002-Q1	34	34	0	0	22	184	333	1	yes
2001-Q4	25	24	0	0	13	153	345	1	yes
2001-Q3	21	20	0	127	13	166	297	0	yes
2001-Q2	26	25	0	30	18	233	695	2	yes
2001-Q1	27	27	0	89	17	219	392	0	yes
2000-Q4	29	25	0	0	15	191	355	0	yes
2000-Q3	37	36	0	86	20	184	492	1	yes
2000-Q2	35	33	0	0	23	154	441	1	yes
2000-Q1	47	47	0	85	26	179	382	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

394 of the 4,365 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 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.