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Daily Brief · Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · No. 74
311 requests up 14% vs a typical Monday — 10,018 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 10,018 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 14% against a typical Monday (median of the last 8 Mondays: 8,782). 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 (2,347), Item Pickups (1,983), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,797).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 1,580 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 131 requests.
The ground moved 62 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.5 12 km SSW of Lompoc, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $116,250,000 apartment permit in Westchester (90045). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $2,240,830,550.