How long do kitchen remodel permits take in San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks neighborhood?

In the West of Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 173 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 4 days, up from 1 day a year earlier. Of the 156 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 224 days of being issued, the same as 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	173 issued	4	197 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	156 finished	224	183 finished	224

“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	4	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	51	36	6	28	2			0	too recent
2026-Q2	53	47	3	22	7	105	132	0	too recent
2026-Q1	49	45	1	86	20	82	228	0	too recent
2025-Q4	50	45	7	165	24	134	296	0	too recent
2025-Q3	54	50	6	68	24	151	345	0	too recent
2025-Q2	55	50	0	73	33	226	402	0	too recent
2025-Q1	53	51	1	130	32	143	300	0	too recent
2024-Q4	50	46	2	56	37	168	389	0	too recent
2024-Q3	50	48	2	112	36	205	344	0	yes
2024-Q2	60	59	7	76	43	218	448	0	yes
2024-Q1	53	50	4	125	42	290	480	0	yes
2023-Q4	45	43	3	100	35	220	576	0	yes
2023-Q3	54	49	1	192	39	204	648	8	yes
2023-Q2	61	60	7	99	48	227	480	5	yes
2023-Q1	55	52	0	59	48	200	539	3	yes
2022-Q4	65	64	6	317	48	280	700	6	yes
2022-Q3	63	58	7	224	46	305	690	10	yes
2022-Q2	63	60	2	100	52	322	820	5	yes
2022-Q1	70	64	7	91	51	263	631	11	yes
2021-Q4	65	63	6	77	52	333	674	8	yes
2021-Q3	55	50	1	154	37	288	972	7	yes
2021-Q2	70	68	0	199	56	224	614	10	yes
2021-Q1	62	59	51	307	49	232	700	9	yes
2020-Q4	65	63	31	263	50	266	675	10	yes
2020-Q3	54	50	30	229	39	264	752	9	yes
2020-Q2	21	19	6	71	15	160	614	2	yes
2020-Q1	51	47	0	249	40	242	622	6	yes
2019-Q4	71	65	8	355	52	235	722	9	yes
2019-Q3	57	52	0	78	42	342	657	5	yes
2019-Q2	69	66	0	110	54	182	641	12	yes
2019-Q1	66	66	10	156	52	229	821	10	yes
2018-Q4	57	52	8	308	38	220	725	10	yes
2018-Q3	54	52	0	157	45	269	666	7	yes
2018-Q2	64	61	1	59	51	213	658	9	yes
2018-Q1	79	75	3	493	59	211	606	12	yes
2017-Q4	61	57	1	213	49	243	631	8	yes
2017-Q3	49	48	0	35	40	202	526	7	yes
2017-Q2	63	60	2	322	50	250	588	7	yes
2017-Q1	63	62	0	66	53	170	434	5	yes
2016-Q4	52	51	1	112	38	163	406	7	yes
2016-Q3	67	66	1	66	53	164	444	10	yes
2016-Q2	67	64	6	67	48	242	629	11	yes
2016-Q1	64	61	1	99	52	258	631	9	yes
2015-Q4	52	46	2	84	35	229	458	9	yes
2015-Q3	60	59	4	169	50	280	592	7	yes
2015-Q2	75	73	0	97	63	245	535	5	yes
2015-Q1	59	55	0	31	48	191	456	6	yes
2014-Q4	74	71	0	63	55	219	622	12	yes
2014-Q3	57	53	1	128	40	236	482	13	yes
2014-Q2	59	58	0	65	47	213	675	8	yes
2014-Q1	64	62	0	41	53	150	401	6	yes
2013-Q4	66	65	1	67	54	182	596	7	yes
2013-Q3	71	69	0	63	61	129	393	7	yes
2013-Q2	56	55	0	169	49	146	313	5	yes
2013-Q1	52	52	0	45	47	169	569	3	yes
2012-Q4	47	46	0	8	40	168	364	4	yes
2012-Q3	57	56	0	16	48	172	334	6	yes
2012-Q2	56	56	0	50	51	89	303	2	yes
2012-Q1	49	49	0	52	43	120	304	5	yes
2011-Q4	35	35	0	47	31	174	504	2	yes
2011-Q3	54	52	0	24	44	136	287	3	yes
2011-Q2	51	50	0	23	47	146	284	2	yes
2011-Q1	44	43	0	66	39	142	365	4	yes
2010-Q4	51	49	0	11	47	167	328	0	yes
2010-Q3	45	43	0	10	39	162	371	2	yes
2010-Q2	57	57	0	17	48	133	288	4	yes
2010-Q1	35	35	0	6	31	105	217	1	yes
2009-Q4	45	43	0	21	36	116	382	5	yes
2009-Q3	42	41	0	25	32	120	502	3	yes
2009-Q2	40	39	0	12	31	137	330	1	yes
2009-Q1	40	39	0	45	28	142	407	4	yes
2008-Q4	50	50	0	4	38	124	330	4	yes
2008-Q3	40	39	0	39	31	153	597	2	yes
2008-Q2	61	59	0	168	45	174	595	5	yes
2008-Q1	59	58	0	35	41	158	386	7	yes
2007-Q4	77	73	0	19	57	142	384	7	yes
2007-Q3	71	70	0	3	52	150	346	3	yes
2007-Q2	57	57	0	0	42	136	296	3	yes
2007-Q1	43	43	0	165	32	143	343	1	yes
2006-Q4	50	50	0	18	28	154	361	2	yes
2006-Q3	53	53	0	0	41	190	351	2	yes
2006-Q2	68	67	0	75	52	164	389	2	yes
2006-Q1	54	54	0	0	35	162	273	7	yes
2005-Q4	44	44	0	0	33	181	425	5	yes
2005-Q3	59	59	0	0	43	172	427	4	yes
2005-Q2	58	58	0	0	43	172	316	4	yes
2005-Q1	47	47	0	0	29	126	216	9	yes
2004-Q4	40	39	0	9	30	161	472	0	yes
2004-Q3	66	65	0	147	50	150	422	8	yes
2004-Q2	50	50	0	225	30	157	396	7	yes
2004-Q1	68	68	0	0	48	143	346	9	yes
2003-Q4	49	49	0	0	32	147	522	6	yes
2003-Q3	59	59	0	12	40	158	407	5	yes
2003-Q2	43	43	0	2	32	137	355	2	yes
2003-Q1	45	45	0	0	34	144	321	4	yes
2002-Q4	30	30	0	90	23	133	356	4	yes
2002-Q3	60	58	0	70	38	158	325	15	yes
2002-Q2	44	43	0	96	34	186	640	1	yes
2002-Q1	42	42	0	0	33	151	326	0	yes
2001-Q4	37	37	0	165	23	140	226	2	yes
2001-Q3	34	32	0	51	24	160	325	0	yes
2001-Q2	51	51	0	29	28	150	354	1	yes
2001-Q1	51	51	0	21	36	148	283	2	yes
2000-Q4	39	37	0	84	24	166	391	0	yes
2000-Q3	43	42	0	4	23	175	246	0	yes
2000-Q2	48	48	0	23	28	180	282	0	yes
2000-Q1	37	35	0	79	22	245	526	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

517 of the 5,824 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 West of Twin Peaks neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (7,728 filed, 5,671 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (5,824 filed, 4,292 finished; contractors); stairs (3,019 filed, 2,134 finished; contractors); deck (2,250 filed, 1,536 finished; contractors); roof deck (178 filed, 103 finished; contractors); pergola or trellis (59 filed, 31 finished; contractors). Other types: 30,476 permits. All permits in San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside, Outer Mission, Twin Peaks; 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.