# City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department, San Jose: a government office in San Jose (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/city-of-san-jose-planning-building-and-code-enforcement-department-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-10-15. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/city-of-san-jose-planning-building-and-code-enforcement-department-san-jose-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswojnzv07xnye99r5rigje3%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswojnzv07xnye99r5rigje3%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswojnzv07xnye99r5rigje3%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswojnzv07xnye99r5rigje3%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmswojnzv07xnye99r5rigje3%2F4.jpg) ## In short City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department is a government office. Its AI Score is 45 of 100, which is fair. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Government office | | Address | 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA | | Hours | Mon to Tue 8 AM to 4 PM · Wed 9 AM to 4 PM · Thu to Fri 8 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (408) 535-3555 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 1.9 across 70 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 10:02 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Description | 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Tue 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Wed 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Thu to Fri 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Name | City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (408) 535-3555 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | | Services | Service | Building permits | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Code enforcement | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Inspection services | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Planning applications | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Zoning information | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Website | https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 16, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department Address: 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113, USA. Phone: (408) 535-3555. Hours: Mon to Tue 8 AM to 4 PM · Wed 9 AM to 4 PM · Thu to Fri 8 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 16, 2026 at 8:34 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department on its Google Business Profile: "200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113" ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Santa Clara & 6th | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Island Taste Caribbean Grill | Caribbean restaurant | 1 min walk | | BikeLink : City Hall Wedges | Parking | 1 min walk | | Central Parking | Parking garage | 1 min walk | | Pacific Valley Nutrition | Snack bar | 1 min walk | | Lee's Sandwiches | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 1.9 average across 70 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 16, 2026.) The department struggles with communication and efficiency, leading to widespread dissatisfaction among customers seeking permits. (AI guess, from 70 reviews.) ### What people like - Helpful staff during permit processes - Support from Anthony and Alex ### What people do not like - Long waits for service - Unresponsive front desk - Rude interactions with inspectors - Difficulty in reaching staff via phone or email - Inefficient online permit system ### Press No press story about City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Listed on 0 of the 5 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Yellow Pages | Not listed | ## Recent updates from City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### does City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department ever have cancellations No answer yet ### Saturdays at City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department, are they open? No answer yet ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department? No answer yet ### is there parking at City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department or is it street only? No answer yet ### bad experiences at City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department, anyone? No answer yet ### Whereabouts is City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department? No answer yet ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand No answer yet ### people keep recommending this place, what for? No answer yet ### genuinely, what is good about this one No answer yet ### anything good on Santa Clara to kill time near this place? No answer yet ### best government office in San Jose No answer yet ### prices round here, anyone got a number No answer yet ### budget options in San Jose, what is decent No answer yet ### which one, this place or Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Assistance? No answer yet ### is there a rewards thing at City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 15, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 45 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Government offices on the registry run 23 to 45. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department scores 45. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 35 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 74 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 20 of 27 answers that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 54 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Fair | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a government office When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a government office in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement | Subject of this page | | San Jose, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the government offices in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best government offices in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/government-office - Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own City of San Jose Planning, Building and Code Enforcement Department. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJq2krNLzMj4ARDGzMCmqFJqs (accessed Aug 16, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 15, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)