San Francisco Planning Department Non-Project Permit Records

San Francisco Planning Department records from the Accela permitting system, excluding primary project (PRJ) records. The dataset includes non-project records and child records related to parent PRJ records, which often represent supplemental applications for development project review. Records are exported from the Accela system and updated nightly.

Use Cases

• Analyze the volume and types of supplemental applications required for development projects based on the description of child records.
• Study non-project permitting workflows in urban governance based on the dataset's focus on non-PRJ records.
• Cross-reference this dataset with the related PRJ project dataset to understand full project lifecycles.

Strengths

• Updated nightly, suggesting high recency.
• Linked to a separate, defined dataset of primary project (PRJ) records for potential joins.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco Planning Department

Collection Method

Records exported from the Planning Department's Accela permitting system.

Freshness

Updated nightly.

Geography

San Francisco, California, USA