All historical permits issued, including issue date, type, subtype, etc.

Building Permits from February 22, 2000 to December 16, 2013

Snapshot of San Francisco Development Pipeline. Tracking of construction and entitlement activity based on data from Dept of Building Inspection's Permit Tracking and the Planning Department's Case Tracking enterprise databases, processed quarterly.

Last Ten Fiscal Years (1) FY 2009 figures are based on actual and estimates; FY2011 figures are based on departmental reports. (2) FY 2010 figures are based on estimates. Data are performance metrics narrowed down to the City's core functions, namely, Public Safety, Community Environment, Transportation, Culture, Education and Recreation, Socio-Economic Development and Support Services. (3) Beginning in FY 2005, this category was broken into: "Consumer Protection-cases reviewed" and "Consumer Protection-consumer complaints". (4) The 3-1-1 Call Center Operations, which provides assistance on routine and non-emergency City services, began operations in November 2002. (5) The revenue enhancement unit investigations data include the number of tax discovery cases resulting from the implementation of the new LATAX program. (6) The Citywide system of neighborhood councils was adopted on May 25, 2001. No data available for FY 2008, 2009 and 2010. (7) This category was formerly "Animals Rescued". (8) The City offers free graffiti removal services through its Operation Clean Sweep Program. (9) In FY 2006, the Dept of Transportation changed "Signs Replaced" to "Signs Maintained/Replaced" for better description of reporting. (10) Figures were updated and restated in miles. -- Data not available or no longer reported Sources: Except for the business-type activities data, of which were provided by the departments, all departmental workload indicators and performance metrics are from the Detail of Department Programs which is a supplemental budget document.

Data of approved building/construction permits

This dataset includes all cases reviewed by the Planning Department. Many cases are related to Building Permits. A Building Permit may produce a number of cases with the Planning Department, for example a single Building Permit may require a Transportation Study case and an Environmental Review case. Some cases are not related to Building Permits, e.g Variances or Conditional Use Authorizations. The type of case can be seen in the CaseType_Desc field. Additional information can be found in the dataset's metadata (the .xml file within the .zip). It is important to note that older cases (prior to 1 January 1999) were not consistently recorded in this database. Should you wish to analyze trends within this data it is advisable to remove these older cases (those where the entry in the 'FileDate' field is older than 1 Jan, 1999). This dataset is in a GIS Shapefile format. This format can be read and mapped by most Geographical Information Systems. The .DBF file can be loaded into MS Access, Excel or other database/spreadsheet programs. Data is updated every night.

The number of building permits issued each year for each assessor block.

listing of building permits for new construction, demolition and additions/alterations/repairs and their characteristics

Approved building permits

Contains a snapshot of issued permit data, updated monthly.