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Daily Brief · Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · No. 116
A typical Monday for 311 — 9,061 requests filed across LA
Angelenos filed 9,061 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, up 3% against a typical Monday (median of the last 8 Mondays: 8,762). 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 (2,405), Item Pickups (2,045), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,866).
Busiest ZIP: Downtown LA (South Park) (90015) with 342 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 134 requests.
The ground moved 31 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.2 3 km SSE of Costa Mesa, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes weekly — on Tuesdays, through the previous Saturday), a recent standout: a $19,500,000 office permit in Downtown LA (South Park) (90015). Declared construction value of all permits issued in the latest 30 days on record (Aug 28–Sep 26): $578,574,463.