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Daily Brief · Sunday, September 20, 2026 · No. 107
311 requests up 5% vs a typical Saturday — 3,509 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 3,509 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 5% against a typical Saturday (median of the last 8 Saturdays: 3,341). 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 (708), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (586), Homeless Encampment (519).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 627 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 33 requests.
The ground moved 33 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M1.9 2 km ENE of Colton, 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.