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Street-Use Permits

Metadata Updated: November 29, 2025

Note 1/17/2025: This dataset has been backfilled to include additional permit status and historical permit data. Please see Active Street-Use Permits if you are only interested in currently active permits.

A. SUMMARY All street space permits received by SF Public Works. This includes permits in all statuses of review by Public Works, including those approved and issued as well as those pending review, closed or withdrawn. The dataset includes permits received since 1996. A street space permit grants permission to temporarily occupy a portion of a public roadway or sidewalk for building construction and other construction related work. Find out more about street space permits here.

B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED The dataset is extracted by SF Public Works from its source system and transmitted directly to the Open Data Portal via an automated pipeline.

C. UPDATE PROCESS The dataset is updated daily at 12am with a one day lag.

D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET This dataset can be used to identify the status of any street space permits received by SF Public Works since 1996. Some of the data fields are from early versions of Public Works current system and may not have been validated when first entered. Some fields such as the DBI Building Permit Application (“bpa” field) are entered by Public Works staff and are not validated against Building Permit Applications in DBI’s Permit Tracking System (PTS).

A single permit may be repeated on multiple rows if it covers more than one street or location. You can use the permit_number field to identify the unique number of permits.

The data_as_of field represents when the row was updated, and can be used for incremental loading of the data in conjunction with the unique_id.

E. RELATED DATASETS Active street permits

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from SFO JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 29, 2025
Publisher data.sfgov.org
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/b6tj-gt35
Data First Published 2025-06-18
Data Last Modified 2025-11-29
Category City Infrastructure
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.org/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id d407dda7-c859-45ad-a77d-d3431c9451d2
Harvest Source Id 8507fa43-f429-4095-b732-2177330ce485
Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/b6tj-gt35
License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 16c547f3662c2be2e0d28fa3c47e936ba2a42ef254faffa92c880cf2597af8dc
Source Schema Version 1.1

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