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Daily Brief · Friday, August 21, 2026 · No. 77
A typical Thursday for 311 — 7,424 requests filed across LA
Angelenos filed 7,424 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 2% 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 (1,858), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,471), Item Pickups (1,297).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 384 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 115 requests.
The ground moved 52 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.1 9 km WSW of Progreso, B.C., MX.
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.