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Existing uses in building permits
A list of existing uses for buildings when applying for permits in PermitSF.
You can select one of the following existing uses when applying for certain permits on PermitSF:
- Single family dwelling
- Two family dwelling
- Accessory cottage
- Adult entertainment
- Ambulance service
- Amusement center
- Animal sale or care
- Antenna
- Apartments
- Aquarium
- Artist live/work
- Auto repairs
- Automobile sales
- Barber/beauty salon
- Bath house
- Building materials
- Car wash
- Chemical processing
- Child care
- Christmas tree lot
- Clinics-medical/dental
- Club
- Condo
- Consulate
- Convalescent home
- Dairies/dairy equipment
- Dance hall
- Day care center
- Day care home less than 7
- Day care home 7 - 12
- Day care home greater than 12
- Day care, non-residential
- Dry cleaners
- Explosives handling
- Fence/retaining wall
- Filling/service station
- Food/beverage handling
- Garment shops
- Greenhouse
- Health studios & gym
- Hospital
- Jail
- Laundry/laundromat
- Lending institution
- Library
- Manufacturing
- Massage parlor
- Meat/produce marts
- Misc group residences
- Mortuary
- Moving & storage
- Muni carbarn
- Muni driver restroom
- Museum
- Newspaper/magazine
- Night club
- Nursery (floral)
- Nursing home less than 6
- Nursing home greater than 6
- Nursing home, non-ambulatory
- Office
- Orphanage
- Paint store
- Parking lot
- Phone exchange/equipment
- Printing plant
- Parking garage (private)
- Parking garage (public)
- Personal service tutor
- Public assembly other
- R-3(dwg) nursing
- Radio & TV stations
- Recreation building
- Residential hotel
- Retail sales
- Roofing materials
- School
- Sewage plant
- SFPD or SFFD station
- Sign
- Social care facility
- Sound studio
- Stadium
- Stock exchange
- Storage shed
- Storage tanks
- Swimming pool
- Temple
- Theater
- Tourist hotel/motel
- Tower
- Vacant lot
- Warehouse, furniture
- Warehouse, no furniture
- Wholesale sales
- Workshop commercial
- Workshop residential