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Daily Brief · Saturday, September 19, 2026 · No. 106
311 requests down 7% vs a typical Friday — 5,983 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 5,983 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 7% against a typical Friday (median of the last 8 Fridays: 6,434). 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 (1,790), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,074), Item Pickups (951).
Busiest ZIP: Downtown LA (South Park) (90015) with 159 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 107 requests.
The ground moved 37 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.5 11 km N of Fillmore, 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). Declared construction value of all permits issued in the latest 30 days on record (Aug 14–Sep 12): $2,592,789,696.