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Architect, San Francisco License C27516

David Seidel Aia

The city has issued 11 of the 11 San Francisco building permits that name David Seidel Aia since 2018. The work is a mix of residential and commercial, led by restaurants and bars. Their busiest neighborhoods are Mission, Glen Park and North Beach.

Also filed as
engineer
Issued by the city
11 of 11 filed since 2018
Rank for restaurants and bars
No. 55 of 200 by restaurants and bars issued
Overall rank
No. 578 of 1,543 architects and designers
Commercial share
55% last filing Nov 2020

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with David Seidel Aia on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 5 restaurants and bars, 3 home remodels, 2 apartments and multifamily.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

45% residential
55% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Restaurants and bars Commercial 5 of 5 issued 45% of filings.
  2. Home remodels Residential 3 of 3 issued 27% of filings.
  3. Apartments and multifamily Residential 2 of 2 issued 18% of filings.
  4. Retail and shops Commercial 1 of 1 issued 9% of filings.

Permits over time

Permits filed each year, drawn as a street with one building per year, and how many of all their permits the city has issued.

Busiest year
2019
7 permits filed
Latest filing
Nov 2020
100% of 11 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 2, 2019: 7, 2020: 2, 2021: 0, 2022: 0, 2023: 0, 2024: 0, 2025: 0, 2026: 0. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 1 permit; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 11 of 11 permits filed

100%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

Source: SF Department of Building Inspection permits via DataSF.

How fast their permits come through

Filing to issue for permits that went through plan review. David Seidel Aia has 0 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for restaurants and bars, their most filed type, where 260 of 3,793 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.

No median yet: fewer than 3 issued plan-review permits with usable dates.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. San Francisco, restaurants and bars: 7.4 months. Middle half of city permits: 3.7 to 12.5 months.
0 other architects and designers ranked for restaurants and bars have a median for it Each circle is a firm's median for its plan-review permits for restaurants and bars. Dashed line: the median of all San Francisco plan-review permits for restaurants and bars, 7.4 months. Shaded: the middle half of those permits, 3.7 to 12.5 months.
0 3 6 9 12 15 months 0 3 6 9 12 15 months

Where they rank

Ranked by permits the city has issued since 2018, first across every project type, then for restaurants and bars alone.

  1. 576 Atelier 424 11
  2. 577 Cooley Architecture 11
  3. 578 David Seidel Aia 11
  4. 579 Dtmarchitect 11
  5. 580 Farrari Moe, Llp 11

All permits issued, 1,543 architects and designers Full ranking

  1. 53 Lineoffice Arch. 5
  2. 54 Gi Paoletti Design Lab 5
  3. 55 David Seidel Aia 5
  4. 56 Hood Thomas Architects 4
  5. 57 Schaub | Li | Architects 4

Restaurants and bars issued, 200 architects and designers Restaurants and bars ranking

Where they work

The neighborhoods where David Seidel Aia files the most permits, and how many architects and designers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.

  1. 01 Mission 381 architects and designers count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods
  2. 02 Glen Park 88 architects and designers count Glen Park among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 North Beach 97 architects and designers count North Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Japantown 32 architects and designers count Japantown among their busiest neighborhoods

Questions for the first call

  1. Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
  2. How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
  3. Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?

Other architects and designers for restaurants and bars

Firms ranked near David Seidel Aia by permits issued for restaurants and bars.

  1. 49 Arcsine 5 restaurants and bars issued
  2. 50 Zero Ten Design 5 restaurants and bars issued
  3. 53 Lineoffice Arch. 5 restaurants and bars issued
  4. 56 Hood Thomas Architects 4 restaurants and bars issued
  5. 57 Schaub | Li | Architects 4 restaurants and bars issued
  6. 58 Aem 4 restaurants and bars issued

See all 200 architects and designers ranked for restaurants and bars

Sheet
A-578 No. 578 of 1,543
Drawing
Permit record, David Seidel Aia
Architect, San Francisco
License
C27516 check with CAB
Data as of
Oct 2026
Scale
Not to scale

Built only from public San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records (permits, permit contacts), updated 2026-10-20. It is not a review or an endorsement, and David Seidel Aia has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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