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Daily Brief · Thursday, October 15, 2026 · No. 132
311 requests down 11% vs a typical Wednesday — 7,721 filed across LA
Angelenos filed 7,721 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 11% against a typical Wednesday (median of the last 8 Wednesdays: 8,694). 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 (2,171), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,656), Item Pickups (1,482).
Busiest ZIP: Gramercy Park / South LA (90047) with 193 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 109 requests.
The ground moved 30 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M3.0 3 km N of San Jacinto, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes weekly — on Tuesdays, through the previous Saturday), a recent standout: a $10,000,000 special care home permit in Hancock Park / Koreatown (90004). Declared construction value of all permits issued in the latest 30 days on record (Sep 11–Oct 10): $414,654,938.