Los Angeles, California Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Vol. 1 · Day 60

LA CIVICS.

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

311 TODAY 68QUAKES, LATEST 24H 40 (M3.1)READERS 1

311 requests down 9% vs a typical Sunday — 3,513 filed across LA

Angelenos filed 3,513 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 9% against a typical Sunday (median of the last 8 Sundays: 3,842). 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: Item Pickups (1,184), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,005), Graffiti Removal (361).

Busiest ZIP: Sylmar (91342) with 104 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 56 requests.

The ground moved 40 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M3.1 23 km WSW of Westmorland, CA.

In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $375,000,000 community center operated by governmental agency permit in Downtown LA (South Park) (90015). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $1,722,632,006.

By the numbers

311 yesterday: 3,513 · typical Sunday: 3,842 · Westwood: 56 · quakes 24h: 40 (max M3.1) · permit value 30d: $1,722,632,006

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