LA County Permitting (EPIC-LA Case History)

Electronic Permitting and Inspections - Los Angeles County (EPIC-LA), provided by the vendor Tyler Technologies, is the current primary system for property developers, landowners, or other stakeholders to apply for cases (plans or permits) in the [unincorporated] areas of Los Angeles County. Departments who use EPIC-LA include Regional Planning, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Fire Department, and Public Health, among others. The Department of Regional Planning started using EPIC-LA in 2016, while Public Works started in 2018. Only plans after 2016-01-01 and permits after 2018-01-01 are included, based on the application date. For geometry that was originally a line or polygon, the center-points or centroids of the cases are present in this layer. Data is refreshed each business day, Mon-Fri by around 9am. MODULENAME - A system module that distinguishes different case types, either PlanManagement or PermitManagement in this layer. CASENUMBER - A case identifier, consisting of a prefix, a year, and a counter. Duplicates are possible due to multiple geometries per case or different versions across the history. PROJECTNAME - Cases can be grouped into projects, but not all. This is a display named used, sometimes containing a year and ID. SPATIALTYPE - The type of geometry source. Address is an address point. GISFeature was manually drawn by staff. Parcel is a polygon from the assessor. Centroids of all these types were taken for this layer. APPLY_DATE - The date the applicant submitted the case. COMPLETE_DATE - The date the case was completed. For permits, this is the finaled date. EXPIRE_DATE - The date when the case no longer becomes valid for work. STATUS - The current state of the case. The unique values will differ depending on the case type (permits will not always have comparable statuses to plans). DESCRIPTION - Notes entered by the staff about the case. CASENAME - An initial category for a case, beyond whether it is a plan or permit. WORKCLASS_NAME - A more specific category regarding the type of work to be done. AFFORDABLE_HOUSING - For permits only. A flag for whether a permit was marked by staff as being affordable housing. ISSUANCE_DATE - For permits only, the date when the permit was issued by the agency. The bolded fields below have been added for the Eaton Fire and Palisades Fire rebuilding efforts. If a case has multiple geometry records, then only one of those records will have these fields populated, and the other records will have these fields blank, to simplify counting statistics. DISASTER_TYPE - The name of the fire followed by month and year. Values to filter for are as follows: Eaton Fire (01-2025) Palisades Fire (01-2025) There are overall 7 fire rebuilding phases being tracked on the [Permitting Progress Dashboard]. One case can belong to multiple phases, which must be considered when getting the case counts of each phase. Separate fields in bold are provided for each phase. When the case is flagged as being in that phase, the record will have the value in italics under that field: 1. REBUILD_APP_RECEIVED - Rebuild Applications Received 2. ZONING_REV_CLEARED - Zoning Reviews Cleared 3. BUILD_PLAN_REV_PROC - Full Building Plans Received 4. BUILD_PLAN_APPROVED - Building Plans Approved 5. BUILD_PERMIT_ISSUED - Building Permits Issued 6. REBUILD_IN_CONS - Rebuild In Construction 7. CONS_COMPLETED - Construction Completed Older plan cases, which have prefix CREC, will not have the latter four phases populated. Standalone permits with prefix UNC correspond to later stages of rebuilding and will not have the initial two phases populated. The REBUILD_PROGESS shows the latest stage of a case with the 7 display values in italics above, but should not be used for statistics because a case can still be counted as being in an earlier phase. More info on the meaning of the phases is available as follows, along with structure type meanings: [https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1184128_2025FireRebuildingMetricDefinitions.pdf] STRUCT_TYPE_DISP - A display name for the structure type, only available for fire rebuilding permits issued and later phases, and blank for the earlier phases. Values are as follows, though some have no records currently. Only the SFR, ADU, and MFR are considered residential: SFR - Single Family Residence ADU - Accessory Dwelling Unit MFR - Multi Family Residence Non-Residential Accessory Structure Miscellaneous Repair