What is being built on private land
Every building permit the City of Arcadia issued in the twelve months to July 2026: 22 permits covering $0 of declared work, and $7,324 of fees paid to the city. They are drawn one block per address, standing on the assessor's parcels they were issued for, and a block's height is the combined value of the work permitted there.
Three things to know before you read this map
These are issued permits — not applications, and not refusals. The city publishes a monthly list of permits it has issued. It publishes no list of applications waiting for a decision, and no list of anything refused; those appear only inside individual hearing notices and decision letters, one project at a time, in prose. So a pending or denied project is not on this map, and One Public Budget will not guess at one. Everything drawn here was approved and permitted.
The height is the declared job value. That is the figure the applicant stated the work was worth, which is what the city prints. It is not an assessment, not a sale price, and not what the work finally cost. Plenty of real work is recorded at $0 — most reroofs, solar installs and demolitions are — and those are drawn as a thin plate rather than dropped.
The lots are real, and that is unusual here. Unlike the capital projects map, where One Public Budget has to infer a location from a sentence, every permit prints the assessor's parcel number and Los Angeles County publishes that parcel's boundary. These are the actual lots. The one thing we check and report is whether the county's address for a parcel matches the address on the permit — hover any lot where it does not. Where one address covers several parcels — 400 S Baldwin is five — they are drawn and counted as one place, and that grouping is ours.
22 permits on the map
Drawn as one block per address. Click a block, or the figure above it, to open that address and read its permits one at a time.
Starting the 3D view…
Properties, by the kind of work in their largest permit
- New multifamily housing
- New single-family home
- Accessory dwelling unit
- Addition, remodel or tenant improvement
- Roof, electrical, plumbing, fire or seismic work
- Solar
- Demolition
- Other
Warm colours are new construction, cool colours are work on something already standing. The eight groups are One Public Budget's; the 62 permit types underneath them are the city's, and every property names its own on hover. A property carrying several permits takes the colour of its largest one — a signpost, not a summary. Hover for the kinds of work actually there, or open the property for all of them.
Buildings and ground
- Homes
- Shops, offices, hotels
- Schools
- Civic and public buildings
- Parks and green space
- The ground, shaded by slope
Buildings and land use are context, drawn in grey so the permits stay the only saturated thing on screen. The ground is Arcadia's real elevation, 68 m to 1,260 m, at true vertical scale. Ground height is metres; permit height is money.
One block per property, not one per permit. Where a property carries several permits in the period they are combined into one block, and the figure above it is that combined total — arithmetic by One Public Budget, which is why the label also says how many permits it covers. Click a property, or its figure, to open it and read the permits one at a time.
Each property is drawn as the buildings that stand on it where OpenStreetMap has mapped them, and as the lot itself where it has not — hover to see which. Which buildings belong to a lot is One Public Budget's geometry, matched by the footprint falling inside the county's parcel; the lot itself is the county's record. The outline is the real shape of the place and means nothing about money; only height is money. Height is the declared value of the work, as a share of the largest combined value on any one property in the twelve months — so a block half as tall is work worth about half as much. Colour is the kind of work in the largest permit on the property; the others are named on hover and on its page. Heights compare reliably only from a level or overhead angle: in a tilted view a nearer block looks taller than an equal one further away. The floating figures are rounded; hover for the exact one, or read the table below, which carries every figure in full.
Basemap: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2023 (public domain), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), elevation from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP, public domain), and parcel boundaries from the Los Angeles County Assessor (public record). Served from this site; nothing is fetched from anyone else.
What kind of work this is
Arcadia prints 62 different permit types. One Public Budget collects them into eight groups so the map can be read at a glance — the grouping is ours, the permit types and the figures are the city's. Every permit keeps the city's own type, shown on hover and in the table below.
| Kind of work | Permits | Declared value |
|---|---|---|
| Solar | 22 | $0 |
| Total | 22 | $0 |
Totals are arithmetic by One Public Budget over the figures the city printed.
Every permit in this view
The same 22 permits, as a table. Sorted by declared value, highest first. This is the record; the map is the entry point.
| Address | Work | Declared value | Issued | On the map? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 480 WORKMAN AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8453 | Solar- Residential — INSTALL ESS SYSTEM (W/ 2 BATTERIES) AND BACKUP SUB PANEL TO EXISTING SOLAR PV | none recorded | 2025-08-14 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 300 W LEMON AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8033 | Solar- Residential — ROOF MOUNT PV SYSTEM 8.4 KW, 24 PANELS, 2 INVERTER, 2 BATTERIES TO ADD TO | none recorded | 2025-08-14 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 9824 E NAOMI AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-7544 | Solar- Residential — PV roof mount 11.310 kW, 26 panels, 26 inverters, 3 batteries backup, 1 IQ system controller, an existing electrical | none recorded | 2025-08-04 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 105 W LA SIERRA DR Arcadia, CA 91007-4022 | Solar- Residential — ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR SYSTEM 8.19 KW. 21 MODULES, ESS AND NEW SUB PANEL 100 AMP | none recorded | 2025-08-01 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 63 W BIRCHCROFT ST Arcadia, CA 91007-5131 | Solar- Residential — 13.940kw, installing 34 solar panels, 2 battery's, MPU 225/200 | none recorded | 2025-08-14 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1885 N SANTA ANITA AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-1655 | Solar- Residential — Install roof mounted PV, 11.07 kW, (27) modules, (3) Tesla Powerwall ESS, (1) 225A load center, (2) 200A | none recorded | 2025-08-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 311 N FOURTH AVE B Arcadia, CA 91006-2912 | Solar- Residential — Install (N) Roof Mounted PVS 3.080kW. 7 Panels for ADU. | none recorded | 2025-08-13 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1401 CARMELITA PL Arcadia, CA 91006-2120 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — ADDING 10 MODULES AND 1 INVERTER TO EXISTING SOLAR PV SYSTEM | none recorded | 2025-08-01 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 79 W CAMINO REAL AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8002 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — New roof solar - 19.35kW - 45 mods - 2 Inverters with ESS - 2 Gateways | none recorded | 2025-08-04 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 130 W PAMELA RD Arcadia, CA 91007-4037 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Roof Mount Solar PV: 3.2 kW, Panels: 8 2 Tesla Ess | none recorded | 2025-08-07 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 210 W WISTARIA AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8009 | Solar- Residential — Proposed to install 40 panels with 40 Microinverters 16.2 kW Dc solar system on roof top & Upgrade existing | none recorded | 2025-08-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 321 OXFORD DR Arcadia, CA 91007-2642 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Rooftop installation of 20 panels, 2 Enphase IQ 10C batteries, 1 IQ meter collar , existing 20 solar panels | none recorded | 2025-08-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 156 LUBEN LN Arcadia, CA 91006-4679 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Roof Mount Solar PV: 9.84kW, Panels: 24 Ess: 2 | none recorded | 2025-08-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1041 ENCANTO DR Arcadia, CA 91007-6106 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Installing 3.28kw residential roof mounted pv system | none recorded | 2025-08-13 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1142 PALOMA DR Arcadia, CA 91007-6126 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Installation of 15 Modules-Roof Mounted - 6.075 kW DC, 5.618 kW CEC-AC + ESS | none recorded | 2025-08-14 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 700 E NORMAN AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4807 | Solar- Residential — Residential roof mount solar pv system, 6.150kw, 15 modules, New 200A Sub panel, New 400A Sub | none recorded | 2025-08-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1825 S 2ND AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4706 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — 14.06 KW Solar system size 37 pieces of solar panels (380watt | none recorded | 2025-08-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1209 EL MONTE AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-6928 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — PV System of 7.79KW-DC (19) modules of 410W and 1 Tesla PW3 Inverter Battery. | none recorded | 2025-08-22 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 529 WALNUT AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8339 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Roof Mount Solar PV: 9.84 kW, Panels: 24 Ess: 2 | none recorded | 2025-08-23 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 423 OXFORD DR Arcadia, CA 91007-2644 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — Roof mount solar 6.525kw system, (15) PV module/mircro inverter , (1) ESS. MPU | none recorded | 2025-08-27 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1518 S THIRD AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4213 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — INSTALL 26 ROOF MOUNTED SOLAR PV'S WITH 2 ENPHASE IQ 5P-1P BATTERIES. DOWNGRADE | none recorded | 2025-08-27 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 300 MARILYN PL Arcadia, CA 91006-1538 | SolarApp+ (Pre-Approved) — ROOF MOUNTED: 6.15 KW DC/9.6 KW AC (15) MODULES | none recorded | 2025-08-27 | everything at this address · on its parcel |