Public Works' mapping division processes and reviews all subdivision projects that occur in San Francisco, including all condominium conversions. We also provide surveying services for all city agencies.
Regarding: Hardcopy submittals to SF Public Works, Surveys and Mapping.
Public access to our office is extremely limited during this time of precautions put in place due to COVID-19. To the greatest extent possible in the interest of safety and your own convenience, please avoid dropping off hardcopy materials to our office. Send all hardcopy materials via postal mail or other parcel delivery service to the following address:
Public Works Bureau of Street-Use and Mapping
49 South Van Ness Avenue, Suite 300
Attn: 9th Floor, Subdivison and Mapping
San Francisco, CA 94103
If for any reason you must drop off your hardcopy materials, please do so at the following location and hours:
49 South Van Ness Avenue, 1st floor lobby.
Monday through Friday, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
An unattended drop-box is available at the permit center check-in desk. No receipt is available. You may have to stand in line for 15 minutes or more as entrance to the building is limited. Please plan accordingly. We request that you email to inform us you have dropped off specific materials at subdivision.mapping@sfdpw.org.
Due to nonuse, mapping staff has discontinued attended dropoff services. Please continue to use the unattended dropoff box available at the permit center check-in desk.
Please monitor our website for updates: https://sfpublicworks.org/services/subdivisions-and-mapping.
You are welcome to inquire with us should you have any questions with regard to mailing of submittals, or drop-off procedures.
Please send email to: subdivision.mapping@sfdpw.org.
Effective January 1, 2018 California State Senate Bill 2 (SB 2 - Atkins) is in effect and there is a mandated state fee added to the base recording fees charged to record a document. Each document set, including maps, submitted to the Public Works mapping department for recordation requires a fee of $75 per resultant APN in each real property document to be recorded, not to exceed a maximum SB2 fee of $225 per document. Again, this is in addition to the base recording fee.
This applies to all current and future project applications. Please visit the Recording Fee website of the Office of the Assessor-Recorder for more information.
http://www.sfassessor.org/recorder-information/recording-document/recording-fees
To increase efficiency and reduce paper consumption, the Office of the City and County Surveyor requires that all project applications be submitted electronically.*
Residential Condominium Conversion (2 Residential Units ONLY)
Condominium Conversion Process Flowchart - Both Units Owner Occupied
Expedited Conversion Program (ECP) - Group 7 SUSPENDED (2-6 Residential Units) - See Expedited Conversion Program Below
Lot Line Adjustment - For Adjusting Property Lot Lines
Monument Referencing Application - For Survey Monuments Threatened by Construction
New Condominium - For Adding Unit(s) to an Existing Building or Creating a New Property and Ultimately Creating Condominiums
Parcel - Final Map - For Lot Subdivisions
Record of Survey - For surveys prepared and sealed by a registered CA land surveyor identifying the boundaries of land and real property
Sidewalk Legislation - For Sidewalk Changes
Certificate of Compliance - For Finding Existing Lots in Compliance with the Subdivision Map Act
Partial Suspension of ECP Program - As of 8/15/2017
ECP - NO Tenants
Owner Affidavit For No New Evictions and No New Tenants - Shall be signed and submitted within 30 days of the mylar submittal package.
ECP - With Tenants
Instruction & forms for buildings with tenants - Documents listed below shall be submitted as part of the checkprint submittal package.
Documents listed below shall be submitted as part of the mylar submittal package.
Owner Affidavit for Buildings with Tenants - Shall be signed and submitted within 30 days of the mylar submittal package.
Sample Lifetime Lease (if applicable)
Notice of Special Restrictions (if applicable)
ECP 20 Day Tentative Map Notices
Alpha maps - find historic maps that may show monuments and property lines
Assessors block maps - find lot dimensions/property lines of a specific property
Benchmark data search - redirected to CCSF Geodetic Network page
Dedication, grade, and monument maps - find street name changes, sidewalk/street width (right of way), slope, elevation and monuments
Historic block diagrams - find historic diagrams of a particular assessor block
Recorded maps - find the owner(s) who recorded the map, the date the map recorded, recordation information and new lot numbers
Street name changes - to change/rename a street name
Scanned maps - for additional maps, such as Corner Records, A-Maps, Q-Maps, Field Notes and Recorded Maps
Subdivision Regulations for Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard
Subdivision Regulations for Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island
Effective Immediately - All submittals in electronic format. Checkprint in PDF format.
Assessor's Parcel Numbers are required on all Mylar submittals. We do not require complete condominium plans, only the numbers to verify with the Assessor's Office.
If the package received by our office is reviewed and deemed incomplete, you will be assessed a $250 fee for additional review cost.
Office of the Assessor-Recorder current recording fee
Final Map
Non-Condominiums
Condominiums
Parcel Map
Condominiums
Non-condominiums
Tentative Map
Tentative Map Approval expiration timeline
Tentative Map Revisions
The Office of the City and County Surveyor does not make any representations as to the accuracy and completeness of the information found on non-City internet sites. Links are provided for convenience only and do not imply City endorsement. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate the content of information obtained.
San Francisco Public Works
Bureau of Street-Use and Mapping
49 S. Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (628) 271-2000
Email: subdivision.mapping@sfdpw.org