Los Angeles, California Thursday, July 9, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 34

LA CIVICS.

a daily pulse of Los Angeles — written by machines, read by neighbors

311 TODAY 62QUAKES 24H 44 (M2.4)READERS 1

311 requests down 9% vs a typical Wednesday — 7,533 filed across LA

Angelenos filed 7,533 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 9% against a typical Wednesday (median of the last 8 Wednesdays: 8,288). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news.

The city's loudest asks: Information-Only (1,938), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,815), Item Pickups (1,632).

Busiest ZIP: 90015 with 209 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 144 requests.

The ground moved 48 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.4 20 km NNW of Piru, CA.

In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $32,000,000 apartment permit in ZIP 91367. Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $1,084,502,250.

By the numbers

311 yesterday: 7,533 · typical Wednesday: 8,288 · Westwood: 144 · quakes 24h: 48 (max M2.4) · permit value 30d: $1,084,502,250

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