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Building permit in Daly City, California

Daly City publishes an initial plan review figure, which many building departments do not: fifteen working days. Two qualifications travel with it and both matter. The clock starts "from the date of routing" rather than from submittal, and routing is never defined on the pages read. And the Building Division states plainly that review is currently taking longer than that figure.

Verified 2026-09-22 · Source

When you need this permit

  • "Building Permit Application (PDF) or Re-Roofing Permit Application (PDF)"
  • "Credit Card Authorization (PDF)"
  • "Any other supporting documentation; e.g., electronic PDF files of your drawings/plans, calculations, etc."
  • Resubmittals go by email: "Resubmittal documents should be emailed to the Building Division."
  • Design to the code in force when the application is DEEMED COMPLETE: "Permit applications deemed complete before January 1, 2026, may continue to be reviewed under the codes in effect on the date the application was deemed complete."

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Permit and plan check fees
No fee schedule, valuation table or deposit figure appears on the Building Division page or the Permits Involving Plans page. Show full citationNo fee schedule, valuation table or deposit figure appears on the Building Division page or the Permits Involving Plans page. The city does publish a "Credit Card Authorization (PDF)" among the required submittal documents, so payment is collected at submittal, but no amount is stated on the pages read.
NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read.

Review timeline

Plan reviewDaly City’s published plan-review target
15–15 business days

How long did your Building permit permit actually take in Daly City?

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Inspection process

  1. Scheduled through the city's inspection page

    The Building Division page links "Schedule a Building Permit Inspection". The inspection request method, any notice period and any daily cutoff time are NOT STATED on the pages read for this record.

Tips

  • Fifteen working days is three calendar weeks before any delay, and the city says there is currently delay. Plan from the caveat, not the number.
  • "From the date of routing" is not "from the date you submitted". The gap between those two events is not published, so it is unbudgeted time.

Frequently asked questions

Daly City requires a building permit for: "Building Permit Application (PDF) or Re-Roofing Permit Application (PDF)"; "Credit Card Authorization (PDF)"; "Any other supporting documentation; e.g., electronic PDF files of your drawings/plans, calculations, etc."; Resubmittals go by email: "Resubmittal documents should be emailed to the Building Division."; Design to the code in force when the application is DEEMED COMPLETE: "Permit applications deemed complete before January 1, 2026, may continue to be reviewed under the codes in effect on the date the application was deemed complete.". If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Daly City Building Division at 650-991-8061 before starting work.

In Daly City, the published Permit and plan check fees is: NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read.. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

The published figure is fifteen working days: "Initially submitted plans are generally reviewed within 15-working days from the date of routing." Treat it as the standard rather than a forecast, for two reasons. It runs from "routing", which the pages read never define, so the wait before routing is unaccounted for. And the Building Division page says: "Due to a high volume of applications, the times frame for initial plan review is currently longer than normal."

Depending on your project, Daly City may also ask for: ; ; . See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Apply through City of Daly City Building Division at 333 90th Street - 2nd Floor, Daly City, CA 94015. Phone: 650-991-8061, email: buildingdivision@dalycity.org. Office hours: "Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM" per the Building Division page. NOTE: a search-result summary for this site described the hours as 8am-5pm "(Wednesdays from 9 am to 5 pm)". No Wednesday exception appears on the Building Division page read for this record, so it is NOT recorded here.. Official information: https://www.dalycity.org/164/Building.

"Permit applications deemed complete before January 1, 2026, may continue to be reviewed under the codes in effect on the date the application was deemed complete." The trigger is being DEEMED COMPLETE, which is not the same as having submitted - an application filed in December but not deemed complete until January does not plainly qualify. What makes an application deemed complete is NOT STATED on the pages read.

Twelve, effective January 1, 2026: the 2025 California Administrative, Building, Residential, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Energy, Fire, Existing Building, Green (CALGreen) and Reference Standards codes, plus the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code. Local amendments live in Daly City Municipal Code Title 15 rather than on the Adopted Codes page.

By email: "Resubmittal documents should be emailed to the Building Division." The Building Division's address is buildingdivision@dalycity.org. No resubmittal review timeline is published on the pages read.

Daly City's permit history isn't searchable here yet

This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for Daly City yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.

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