San Francisco Planning Department Project Review Timelines and Performance Metrics

San Francisco Planning Department review time metrics for project applications, including total days to approval and milestone-specific durations. The dataset is generated daily from the Project and Permit Tracking System (PPTS) by the City of San Francisco. It includes both project-level and event-level metrics, with targets and outcomes for tracking review timelines.

Use Cases

• Calculate summary statistics for planning review timelines based on the provided review metrics.
• Analyze project-level timelines for individual planning projects using the project stage and milestone data.
• Track performance against departmental targets for metrics like days to first check plan letter.
• Identify potential data entry errors by filtering records flagged in the 'potential error' column.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing near real-time tracking of review timelines.
• Includes specific review metrics like days to finish completeness review and days to complete resubmission review.
• Contains targets for each metric, enabling performance outcome analysis.
• Data is sourced from the operational Project and Permit Tracking System (PPTS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description notes that multiple review rounds may occur, which could complicate aggregation without clear event sequencing.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco Planning Department

Collection Method

Data extracted from the Project and Permit Tracking System (PPTS), processed by a data model pulling from multiple raw Accela sources.

Freshness

Updated daily overnight; last metadata update was 2026-03-22.

Geography

San Francisco, California, USA