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Daily Brief · Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · No. 88
A typical Monday for 311 — 8,899 requests filed across LA
Angelenos filed 8,899 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 3% against a typical Monday (median of the last 8 Mondays: 8,620). 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 (2,306), Item Pickups (2,083), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (2,014).
Busiest ZIP: Downtown LA (South Park) (90015) with 330 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 187 requests.
The ground moved 34 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.9 22 km SSW of La Quinta, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $60,000,000 joint living and working quarters permit in Downtown LA (Bunker Hill) (90071). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,579,702,907.