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What Los Angeles residents are reporting and building in Downtown LA (Arts District).
| Top request type (latest 7 days of data) | Count |
|---|---|
| Homeless Encampment | 109 |
| Illegal Dumping Item Pickup | 85 |
| Graffiti Removal | 78 |
| Information-Only | 14 |
| Dead Animal Removal | 4 |
| Barricade Removal | 3 |
| Item Pickups | 3 |
| Watershed Protection Division (WPD) Enforcement | 3 |
| When | Request type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 19 | Other | New |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Oct 19 | Homeless Encampment | Reported |
| Biggest recent permits | Issued | Valuation |
|---|---|---|
| Office business or professional | Aug 14 | $1.7M |
| Warehouse | Aug 7 | $1.5M |
| Coffee Shop | Sep 29 | $300.0K |
| Clothing Store - new | Sep 29 | $200.0K |
| Manufacturing | May 29 | $108.3K |
| Warehouse | Oct 1 | $95.0K |
| Warehouse | Jul 30 | $80.0K |
| Warehouse | Jun 15 | $78.0K |
Note: the city publishes permits in one weekly batch, on Tuesdays, covering permits issued through the previous Saturday.
The city's latest weekly permit batch (received Tuesday, October 20, 1,321 permits citywide, issued Oct 11–Oct 17) had no newly issued permits in ZIP 90021. Nothing new is not nothing: the weekly email says so too, and the citywide batch shows where the week's building went.
Source: LADBS building permits (data.lacity.org), the most recent weekly batch. Addresses as the city publishes them; "value" is the applicant's declared job valuation ("—" = none declared). No owner or contractor names — here or in the email, ever.
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