What is being built on private land
Every building permit the City of Arcadia issued in the twelve months to July 2026: 26 permits covering $1,675,556 of declared work, and $79,986 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.
25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Addition, remodel or tenant improvement | 26 | $1,675,556 |
| Total | 26 | $1,675,556 |
Totals are arithmetic by One Public Budget over the figures the city printed.
Every permit in this view
The same 26 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 983 VOLANTE DR Arcadia, CA 91007-6065 | Res-Addition/Alteration — 165 SQ ADDITION TO 1ST FLOOR, 1480 SQ ADDITION FOR 2ND FLOOR. INTERIOR REMODEL OF | $650,000 | 2025-09-29 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1130 S BALDWIN AVE A5 Arcadia, CA 91007-7508 | Tenant Improvement — Recessed Lighting, outlet, floor sink, vanity and kitchen sink, etc. for HeyTea to replace Takashima. | $150,000 | 2025-09-17 | everything at this address · on its parcel — county records it as 1104 S BALDWIN AVE ARCADIA CA 91007 |
| 77 LAS TUNAS DR Arcadia, CA 91007-8504 | Commercial - Add/Alt — ADDING ONE OFFICE SUITE (610 sq) WHERE CURRENT COVERED PARKING IS LOCATED ON EAST | $110,000 | 2025-09-24 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2736 GILPIN WAY Arcadia, CA 91007-8508 | Res-Addition/Alteration — AT GROUND FLOOR ONLY: BUILDING ADDITION (486 SQ. FT.) INCLUDING A KITCHEN, A | $105,450 | 2025-09-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1335 OAK MEADOW RD Arcadia, CA 91006-2127 | Res-Addition/Alteration — 541SF ADDITION TO ADD 1 STORAGE RM W/ KITCHEN EXPANSION, WOK RM, AND | $100,000 | 2025-09-30 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 11878 CLARK ST Arcadia, CA 91006-6000 | Tenant Improvement — Front Office to be legalized to match current layout. Proposed new warehouse office to be added to | $100,000 | 2025-09-22 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1220 S Golden West Avenue Arcadia, CA 91007-7523 | Tenant Improvement — EXISTING KITCHEN AREA AND RESTROOM REMAIN NO CHANGE. EXISTING DINING | $90,000 | 2025-09-25 | no — the permit prints no parcel number |
| 1011 S BALDWIN AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-7235 | Tenant Improvement — INTERIOR T.I FOR REVE RESTAURANT. WITH MEP. | $80,000 | 2025-09-26 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1300 N SANTA ANITA AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-2418 | Res-Addition/Alteration — 1. CONSTRUCT 423 SF. OF ROOM ADDITION TO THE EXISTING HOUSE, INCLUDE ONE STUDY | $78,952 | 2025-09-10 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2335 S SIXTH AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-5318 | Res-Addition/Alteration — ALTERATION REMODEL TOTAL: 691. 1) EX. PORCH TO BE DEMO 209 SF. 2) EX. CARPORT TO BE | $42,635 | 2025-09-25 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 327 COYLE AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4748 | Res-Addition/Alteration — ADD 121 SQ MASTER SUITE AND REMODEL BATHROOM. TOTAL 3 BED, 2 BATH, 1 POWDER RM, | $35,000 | 2025-09-11 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 21 W DUARTE RD Arcadia, CA 91007-6969 | Commercial - Add/Alt — TENANT IMPROVEMENT: NEW KIDS BATHROOM, NEW COVERED TRASH ENCLOSURE, | $30,000 | 2025-09-23 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2219 EL CAPITAN AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-5110 | Wall-Garden Wall — CONSTRUCT BLOCK WALL AT WEST SIDE OF PROPERTY 6' H X 57' LF AND 6'H X 118'LF ON | $13,121 | 2025-09-02 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2740 GILPIN WAY Arcadia, CA 91007-8508 | Wall-Garden Wall — CONSTRUCT BLOCK WALL ON WEST AND SOUTH SIDE OF PROPERTY PER APPROVED | $10,584 | 2025-09-22 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1626 RODEO RD Arcadia, CA 91006-1805 | Res-Addition/Alteration — REPLACE 5 EXISTING PORCH RAFTERS AND WOOD FASCIA. | $10,000 | 2025-09-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 71-73 E FOOTHILL BLVD Arcadia, CA 91006-2307 | Tenant Improvement — REPLACE LOUVERS WITH SOLID GLASS ABOVE DOORS. INSTALL NEW DOOR AT UNIT 73. | $10,000 | 2025-09-25 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 335 SHARON RD Arcadia, CA 91007-8046 | Res-Addition/Alteration — REMOVE EXISTING WINDOW AND MOVE EXISTING SLIDING DOOR TO CENTER OF WALL. | $9,000 | 2025-09-10 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 365 FAIRVIEW AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-6916 | Res-Addition/Alteration — FACADE ALTERATION WITH NEW PAINT STUCCO, CUT AND REMOVE SECTION OF | $8,500 | 2025-09-04 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 823-825 FAIRVIEW AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-6651 | Res-Addition/Alteration — REPAIR DAMAGED FLOOR SURFACE ON WALKWAY | $7,800 | 2025-09-18 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 468 N OLD RANCH RD Arcadia, CA 91007-6030 | Patio — ATTACHED PATIO TRELLIS 35' LF BY 7' WIDE. WITH HOA APPROVAL | $6,586 | 2025-09-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 341 FAIRVIEW AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-6916 | Wall-Garden Wall — Building a wall between 341 Fairview Ave. and 322 Campus Dr. Property Line 90' | $6,134 | 2025-09-08 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1510 S BALDWIN AVE UNIT A Arcadia, CA 91007-7970 | Res-Addition/Alteration — REMOVE AND REPLACE FRONT ENRTY DOOR ( SAME SIZE AND LOCATION) | $5,194 | 2025-09-02 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2515 ALBERT WAY Arcadia, CA 91007-8440 | Res-Addition/Alteration — RETROFIT 14 WINDOWS (SAME SIZE, LOCATION, AND OPERATING STYLE) W REPLACE | $5,000 | 2025-09-22 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 142 ALTA ST C Arcadia, CA 91006-3621 | Res-Remodel — REPLACE DRYWALL IN KITCHEN DUE TO WATER DAMAGE FROM UPSTAIRS RESTROOM. REPAIR P | $4,600 | 2025-09-29 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1025 LEANDRA LN Arcadia, CA 91006-2217 | Res-Addition/Alteration — CONVERT DINING ROOM INTO 4TH BEDROOM WITH NEW CLOSET. WITH ELECTRICAL | $3,500 | 2025-09-02 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 400 S BALDWIN AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-1900 | Tenant Improvement — BATHROOMS REMODEL FOR FUNBOX. PLUMBING ONLY. | $3,500 | 2025-09-03 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
1 permits that are not on the map
Listed here in full, with their value, so no work is quietly missing from the picture. A permit lands here for one of two reasons: the city printed no parcel number on it, or the county publishes no boundary for the parcel it named. Neither is a judgment about the work — it is a gap in what we can draw.
| Address | Work | Declared value | Why not |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1220 S Golden West Avenue Arcadia, CA 91007-7523 | Tenant Improvement | $90,000 | the permit prints no parcel number |