Los Angeles, California Friday, July 17, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 42

LA CIVICS.

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

311 TODAY 60QUAKES 24H 49 (M3.0)READERS 1

311 requests down 8% vs a typical Thursday — 6,697 filed across LA

Angelenos filed 6,697 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 8% against a typical Thursday (median of the last 8 Thursdays: 7,248). 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 (1,682), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,487), Item Pickups (1,465).

Busiest ZIP: 90015 with 182 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 112 requests.

The ground moved 51 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M3.0 16 km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MX.

In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $3,603,745 apartment permit in ZIP 91601. Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $1,170,903,559.

By the numbers

311 yesterday: 6,697 · typical Thursday: 7,248 · Westwood: 112 · quakes 24h: 51 (max M3.0) · permit value 30d: $1,170,903,559

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