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Completion is not measured.", "About a quarter of pool-type permits are revisions of an earlier permit (identified by permit number and wording) and are excluded.", "Work type is classified from the free-text work description, so a small share of records may be misclassified; renewals of expired permits are excluded as they repeat an earlier pool.", "'With a new house' means a new single-family house permit on the same parcel number from 24 months before to 6 months after the pool permit. Lot splits and merges change parcel numbers, so it is a lower bound. Measured only for cohorts whose full window lies inside the dataset (2022 onward).", "Custom-engineered means the work description does not cite a City standard pool plan.", "Application-to-issue days include time the application spends with the applicant, and cover only permits that were issued.", "The community plan area field contains truncated duplicates of three areas; they are merged.", "Declared valuation is not used: it is a fee figure, not a construction cost." ], "counts": { "all_pool_type_permits": 16928, "revisions": 4376, "non_home_or_error_records": 420, "same_parcel_repeats_removed": 112, "classes_on_homes": { "new_pool": 9728, "remodel": 1905, "spa_only": 371, "removal": 0, "other": 102, "revision": 4290 } }, "new_pool_permits_by_year": [ { "year": 2020, "window": "Jan 1 - 10-23", "new_pools": 884, "brentwood_pacific_palisades": 87, "rest_of_city": 797, "remodels": 181, "spa_only": 29, "new_pools_full_year": 1176 }, { "year": 2021, "window": "Jan 1 - 10-23", "new_pools": 1678, "brentwood_pacific_palisades": 150, "rest_of_city": 1528, "remodels": 250, "spa_only": 50, "new_pools_full_year": 2005 }, { "year": 2022, "window": "Jan 1 - 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