Central Data Repository City of Sugar Land, Office of Data and Innovation
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Brandon Hayes, Utilities Data Steward (Department Data Steward)
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DS-02 Median business days to issue residential building permits

Owner: Development Services. Unit: business days. Reconciliation tolerance: 0.1. Target: 7.0 (lower is better).

Written definition

Source
EnerGov permits
Calculation
Median of business days (Monday to Friday) from application date to issue date, for residential building permits issued in the month.
Inclusions
Permit type Residential Building.
Exclusions
Void permits. City holidays are not excluded from the business day count (documented exception, same as the legacy script).
Time frame
Calendar month of issue date.
Definition status
Accepted Office of Data and Innovation, 11/05/2026

As held in the legacy performance database (PerfDB)

Name
Median business days to issue residential building permits
Note
Median of business days (Monday to Friday) from application date to issue date
Script
perf_ds_02.sql

CDR value against PerfDB

Calculation as run by the CDR

select date_trunc('month', issued_date)::date as month, percentile_cont(0.5) within group (order by business_days_to_issue) as value from curated.fact_permit where permit_type = 'Residential Building' and status <> 'Void' and issued_date is not null group by 1

Reproduce now from the curated layer Runs the SQL above against the current curated tables, read only.

Monthly reconciliation, latest run

MonthPerfDBCDRDifferenceResult
Oct 20255.05.0000.000Within tolerance
Nov 20256.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Dec 20256.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Jan 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Feb 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Mar 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Apr 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
May 20265.05.0000.000Within tolerance
Jun 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Jul 20265.05.0000.000Within tolerance
Aug 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Sep 20266.06.0000.000Within tolerance
Oct 20265.05.0000.000Within tolerance

Reconciliation history

RunResultMonths
L-20261101-0100Within tolerance13
R-20261102-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261103-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261104-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261105-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261106-0200Out of tolerance1
R-20261106-0200Within tolerance12
R-20261107-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261108-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261109-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261110-0200Within tolerance13
R-20261111-0200Within tolerance13

Data as of run R-20261111-0200, finished 11/11/2026 02:13 Central. Curated layer: curated schema.