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Daily Brief · Friday, September 18, 2026 · No. 105
311 requests up 6% vs a typical Thursday — 7,944 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 7,944 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 6% against a typical Thursday (median of the last 8 Thursdays: 7,490). 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 (2,073), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,656), Item Pickups (1,445).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 298 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 123 requests.
The ground moved 25 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.9 4 km SSE of Compton, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $5,944,000 apartment permit in Mar Vista (90066). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,813,621,856.
By the numbers
311 yesterday: 7,944 · typical Thursday: 7,490 · Westwood: 123 · quakes 24h: 25 (max M2.9) · permit value 30d: $4,813,621,856Correction, September 18, 2026: the permit figure this edition labels “30-day window” / “permit value 30d” is the declared value of every permit on our record when it was written (issued since May 7, 2026) — not a 30-day total. The label was accurate in early June and drifted as the record grew. Editions from September 19 print a true 30-day figure with its dates. Archived text is left as published.