Anybody still building?

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One of the more way-cool online gizmos to track development in your neighborhood is the Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s database of building permits.

The department keeps a fairly up-to-date record (the latest stats are for the first quarter of ‘08), and it’s all organized into nice little charts that let you track activity all over town going back several years.

Here’s a link to a slide show showing permits for housing, office, retail and industrial space broken down by neighborhood.

No surprise to Valley residents: Developers pulled the most permits in the south Valley (where I live) in several categories. But a question to the slow-growthers: Are we still worried about too much development now that the economy has crashed?

-- Sharon Bernstein