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Daily Brief · Monday, August 31, 2026 · No. 87
311 requests up 9% vs a typical Sunday — 4,001 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 4,001 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 9% against a typical Sunday (median of the last 8 Sundays: 3,672). 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 (1,281), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,004), Information-Only (360).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 168 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 51 requests.
The ground moved 45 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.0 1 km N of Huntington Beach, 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.