Daily Brief · Friday, October 9, 2026 · No. 126
311 requests down 8% vs a typical Thursday — 7,167 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 7,167 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 8% against a typical Thursday (median of the last 8 Thursdays: 7,756). 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 (1,785), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,499), Item Pickups (1,338).
Busiest ZIP: Westlake / MacArthur Park (90057) with 254 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 115 requests.
The ground moved 64 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M3.2 2 km SW of Signal Hill, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes weekly — on Tuesdays, through the previous Saturday), a recent standout: a $7,500,000 office business or professional permit in Downtown LA (City West) (90017). Declared construction value of all permits issued in the latest 30 days on record (Sep 4–Oct 3): $377,911,659.