What is being built on private land
Every building permit the City of Arcadia issued in the twelve months to July 2026: 27 permits covering $1,904,285 of declared work, and $82,434 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 | 27 | $1,904,285 |
| Total | 27 | $1,904,285 |
Totals are arithmetic by One Public Budget over the figures the city printed.
Every permit in this view
The same 27 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 940 MAYFLOWER AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4547 | Res-Addition/Alteration — Remodel/2-story addition, 4507 sq ft. The remodel/2-story addition will extend forward the single-story front | $531,113 | 2026-01-06 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2302 LENTA LN Arcadia, CA 91006-5340 | Res-Addition/Alteration — 1ST FLOOR 395 SQ FT AND 2ND FLOOR 742 SQ FT ADDITION. TOTAL - 4 BED, 4.5 BATH, | $282,072 | 2026-01-21 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1117 PANORAMA DR Arcadia, CA 91007-6133 | Res-Addition/Alteration — DEMOLITION & REMOVAL OF UNPERMITTED 268 SF SUNROOM; 550 SF SINGLE STORY ADDITION; | $185,000 | 2026-01-20 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1320 OAK MEADOW RD Arcadia, CA 91006-2126 | SF/New- Detached Garage — NEW DETACHED GARAGE W/ STORAGE & POWDER ROOM. WITH MEP | $161,000 | 2026-01-21 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 320 SAN MIGUEL DR Arcadia, CA 91007-3020 | SF/New- Detached Garage — DEMOLISH EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCT A NEW DETACHED GARAGE (661 SF). | $100,000 | 2026-01-26 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 501 S FIRST AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-3888 | Tenant Improvement — Remodel of a portion of an existing medical office building. WITH MEP INCLUDED | $80,000 | 2026-01-14 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1018 W ORANGE GROVE AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-1923 | Res-Addition/Alteration — -Demolish the existing fireplace and existing interior walls -Propose interior alteration -Demolish existing | $76,632 | 2026-01-26 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 219 E FOREST AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-2512 | Res-Addition/Alteration — STORAGE/LAUNDRY ROOM & CARPORT REPAIR DUE TO FIRE LOSS DAMAGE. (APPROX 965 SF) | $76,000 | 2026-01-27 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1030 FALLEN LEAF RD Arcadia, CA 91006-1903 | Private Pool/Spa — 146 PF INGROUND POOL AND SPA | $50,000 | 2026-01-30 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 470 FAIRVIEW AVE A-D Arcadia, CA 91007-6817 | Res-Remodel — Obtain Permit for Kitchen and Bathroom Remodel, HVAC, and Retrofit Windows for all units for | $50,000 | 2026-01-05 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 309 E LAS FLORES AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4754 | Res-Remodel — WINDOW RETROFIT ALL WINDOWS FOR HOME (SAME SIZE, SAME LOCATION & SAME | $50,000 | 2026-01-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 733 W Naomi Avenue Suite B Arcadia, CA 91007-7582 | Tenant Improvement — Scope of Work – Tenant Improvement (Coffee Shop Renovation) This project involves tenant | $50,000 | 2026-01-28 | everything at this address · on its parcel — county records it as 1201 S BALDWIN AVE ARCADIA CA 91007 |
| 601 CAMINO GROVE AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4437 | Res-Addition/Alteration — LEGALIZE 183 SQ.FT. HOME ADDITION TO MAKE NEW WALK-IN CLOSET AND | $36,600 | 2026-01-08 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 118 W LAS FLORES AVE Arcadia, CA 91007-8223 | SF/New- Detached Garage — DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE WITH POOL BATH | $30,000 | 2026-01-06 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 444 E HUNTINGTON DR 306 Arcadia, CA 91006-6203 | Tenant Improvement — TENANT IMPROVEMENT TO CONVERT ONE UNIT INTO 5 UNITS. 306A, 306B, 306C, 306D, | $30,000 | 2026-01-07 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 36-38 E COLORADO BLVD A-E Arcadia, CA 91006-2814 | Wall-Garden Wall — BLOCK WALL 6' X 276' LF AT REAR AND SIDE YARDS PER APPROVED PLANS. INSIDE | $21,168 | 2026-01-20 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 42 W WINNIE WAY Arcadia, CA 91007-8047 | Res-Remodel — ALL DRYWALL, INSTALL INSULATION AND DRYWALL ENTIRE HOUSE. | $20,000 | 2026-01-27 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1431 S Baldwin Avenue Arcadia, CA 91006 | Tenant Improvement — Demolish Existing Table hood system, And CAP Existing Gas line for all existing BBQ Table for YONNY | $20,000 | 2026-01-15 | no — the permit prints no parcel number |
| 1121 & 1123 OKOBOJI DR Arcadia, CA 91007-6552 | Res-Addition/Alteration — WINDOW RETROFIT (SAME SIZE, LOCATION, OPERATING STYLE), BATHROOM REMODELS FOR | $12,000 | 2026-01-26 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 2600 LONGLEY WAY Arcadia, CA 91007-8531 | Res-Addition/Alteration — RESTUCCO & REPLACE SIDING AND FASCIA. | $10,000 | 2026-01-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 830 E CAMINO REAL AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4427 | Wall-Garden Wall — PILASTER AT FRONT OF PROPERTY WITH GATE MOTOR. 10 PILASTERS 3' H WITH | $10,000 | 2026-01-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1018 CYRUS LN Arcadia, CA 91006-2205 | Res-Remodel — Bathroom Remodel Like for like, new toilet, new vanity with sink and faucet, new tile in shower with new shower | $5,200 | 2026-01-28 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 355 E FLORAL AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-2504 | Patio — Attached patio to the back of existing building,253sf | $5,000 | 2026-01-15 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 291 W FOOTHILL BLVD Arcadia, CA 91006-2208 | Res-Remodel — Second floor - master bathroom replacing existing bathroom fixtures and fitting. master bath bed and closet | $4,000 | 2026-01-22 | no — the permit prints no parcel number |
| 1017 CATALPA RD Arcadia, CA 91007-6021 | Res-Addition/Alteration — INSTALL 2500 SQFT BLOW IN INSULATION IN ATTIC | $3,500 | 2026-01-05 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 1018 CYRUS LN Arcadia, CA 91006-2205 | Res-Remodel — REWIRE ENTIRE HOUSE. DRYWALL REPAIR WORK IN KITCHEN, LIVING ,BATHROOM | $3,000 | 2026-01-12 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
| 707 E CAMINO REAL AVE Arcadia, CA 91006-4426 | Res-Remodel — REMOVE AND REPLACE DRYWALL, CHANGE OUT CABINETS, FLOORING, AND | $2,000 | 2026-01-20 | everything at this address · on its parcel |
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1431 S Baldwin Avenue Arcadia, CA 91006 | Tenant Improvement | $20,000 | the permit prints no parcel number |
| 291 W FOOTHILL BLVD Arcadia, CA 91006-2208 | Res-Remodel | $4,000 | the permit prints no parcel number |