The Department’s annual report covers the fiscal year from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. 

To view an interactive version of the report, please click here.

Effective January 1, 2019, residential development projects that comply by paying the Affordable Housing Fee will be subject to the following fee based on the Gross Floor Area of residential use, rather than the number of dwelling units. The fee will be applied to the applicable percentage of the project, as set forth in Section 415.5 of the Planning Code:

San Francisco Planning has named Corey Teague, AICP as the new Zoning Administrator for the City and County of San Francisco. Mr. Teague has been serving as the Assistant Zoning Administrator for the City for the past five years.

The Planning Department has prepared neighborhood- and Board of Supervisors District-level summaries of the latest release of data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey program (2016 Five Year ACS).

This is a notification from the SF Planning Department that the Fee Schedule for the fiscal year 2018-2019 is now in effect as of Friday, August 31, 2018.

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Effective August 27, 2018

As part of San Francisco Planning’s ongoing process improvement efforts, certain minor scopes of work on landmark buildings and in Historic and Conservation Districts will be processed administratively by the Planning Department:

Staff Contact: Paolo Ikezoe, Planner, paolo.ikezoe@sfgov.org

Section 136 in the San Francisco Planning Code outlines the types of obstructions/overhangs, such as bay windows or decorative architectural elements, which may be permitted over streets and alleys.

Fee-related information for each class of application, permit, filing request, or activity of the SF Planning Department.

This is a notification from the SF Planning Department that there will be a new fee schedule coming into effect beginning Friday, August 31st. Click here to preview the new 2018-2019 Fee Schedule.

New application procedures are in effect as of Monday, June 4, 2018. These changes are a key component of the Department's strategy to meet the accelerated project review timeframes established in Mayor Ed Lee's Executive Directive 17-02 on Housing Production issued last year.

Submittal of a single, consolidated Project Application for all projects seeking an entitlement action and/or environmental review is now required.