Menlo Park, CA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-03

64 new building permits were filed in Menlo Park, CA over the trailing 7 days, with $0 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-08-03 · Last permit logged 2026-07-31

Permits filed · this week

64

▼ 15.8% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$0

Prior 7-day comparison

76

permits filed previous week

Menlo Park permit review backlog

Of 579 Menlo Park permits with a published review status, 331 (57.2%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Received27747.8%
Pending Fee Payment15927.5%
Pending Resubmittal559.5%
In Review549.3%
Issued162.8%
Pending Inspection61.0%
Void50.9%
Converted30.5%

Is the Menlo Park building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Menlo Park, CA logged 64 permits in the last 7 days versus 76 the week before — a 15.8% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 TECHPRO BUILDERS INC 3
2 SKYLINE COMMERCIAL INTERIORS INC 2
3 CALBEST ROOFING INC 2
4 EARL ADAMS TILE-COPING & PLASTERING INC 2
5 VILLQUIN AIR SERVICES LLC 2

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Building Pre-Application 19 29.7%
Building Permit 14 21.9%
Revision 10 15.6%
Residential Reroof 9 14.1%
Residential HVAC 5 7.8%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-31 Building Permit 450 HERMOSA WAY INFINIUM SOLAR, INC.
2026-07-31 Building Permit 1225 BAY LAUREL DR AQUATIC POOLS SOUTH BAY
2026-07-31 Residential Water Heater 3 CLELAND PL ATKINSON CLIMATROLLERS INC DBA VALLEY HEATING,COOLING,ELECTR
2026-07-31 Building Pre-Application 940 ALICE LN Forte Construction and Design, Inc.
2026-07-31 Building Permit 1224 SHARON PARK DR LY GREEN CONSTRUCTION INC
Methodology. Data sourced from Menlo Park's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-08-03.

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