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Daily Brief · Sunday, August 30, 2026 · No. 86
311 requests up 18% vs a typical Saturday — 3,515 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 3,515 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 18% against a typical Saturday (median of the last 8 Saturdays: 2,974). 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 (740), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (630), Graffiti Removal (595).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 377 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 66 requests.
The ground moved 36 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M1.8 14 km WSW of Niland, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $1,966,896,355 airport building permit in Westchester (90045). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,320,633,495.