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Architect License C28280

Deborah Lee Sylva

The city has issued 8 of the 8 San Francisco building permits that name Deborah Lee Sylva since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by restaurants and bars. Their busiest neighborhoods are Tenderloin, Bayview Hunters Point and South of Market.

Also filed as
engineer
Issued by the city
8 of 8 filed since 2018
Rank for restaurants and bars
No. 107 of 200 by restaurants and bars issued
Overall rank
No. 709 of 1,543 architects and designers
Commercial share
88% last filing Feb 2026

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Deborah Lee Sylva on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 3 restaurants and bars, 2 retail and shops, 2 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

13% residential
88% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Restaurants and bars Commercial 3 of 3 issued 38% of filings.
  2. Retail and shops Commercial 2 of 2 issued 25% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 2 of 2 issued 25% of filings.
  4. Apartments and multifamily Residential 1 of 1 issued 13% 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
2021
3 permits filed
Latest filing
Feb 2026
100% of 8 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 0, 2019: 0, 2020: 0, 2021: 3, 2022: 0, 2023: 2, 2024: 0, 2025: 2, 2026: 1. 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: 8 of 8 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. Deborah Lee Sylva 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. 707 Claudio Martonffy Design 8
  2. 708 Collaborate Design Group 8
  3. 709 Deborah Lee Sylva 8
  4. 710 Evolve Studio 8
  5. 711 Figure Design 8

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

  1. 105 Studio Kda 3
  2. 106 Collaborate Design Group 3
  3. 107 Deborah Lee Sylva 3
  4. 108 Rim Architects 3
  5. 109 Walter Alfaro 3

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

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Deborah Lee Sylva files the most permits, and how many architects and designers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.

  1. 01 Tenderloin 112 architects and designers count Tenderloin among their busiest neighborhoods
  2. 02 Bayview Hunters Point 133 architects and designers count Bayview Hunters Point among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 South of Market 216 architects and designers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Haight Ashbury 99 architects and designers count Haight Ashbury 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 Deborah Lee Sylva by permits issued for restaurants and bars.

  1. 104 Michael R. Black, Aia 3 restaurants and bars issued
  2. 105 Studio Kda 3 restaurants and bars issued
  3. 106 Collaborate Design Group 3 restaurants and bars issued
  4. 108 Rim Architects 3 restaurants and bars issued
  5. 110 David J. Elliott & Associates 3 restaurants and bars issued
  6. 111 Fumio Suda Architect 3 restaurants and bars issued

See all 200 architects and designers ranked for restaurants and bars

Sheet
A-709 No. 709 of 1,543
Drawing
Permit record, Deborah Lee Sylva
Architect
License
C28280 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 Deborah Lee Sylva has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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