Conclusion

The major effect on sanitation code violations was proximity to major roads, especially King Dr. and couple of other major routes. This factor has more significance than the land use or the population density. Secondly, most violations occurred around housing land uses which are dilapidated and viable ad viable has more violation on it. I believe that this could be explained by the lesser population densities generally has less dumping. In fact, most violations were excessive amounts of regular household trash, seemingly justifying this trend towards areas of greater populations.

The variation in sanitation code violations and the need to aggregate the data made this project as a particularly difficult study. Detailed information at the parcel level was available, but for my scope of study aggregation was required. However, the original data is still existing if someone can deal with this on a more detailed basis. Another problem with this project is that doubts about original data, even though I was ensured that the data was collected in a most systematic way. It is clear to me that sanitation matters are a very subjective issue and the criteria or standards for data collection should be clarified.

Summary Table

criteria	land area (sq. mi.)	violations	violation /area	# of blocks	violations /block	as % of entire	difference from 1	significance
whole study area	304,508,216	536	1.760	183	2.929	1.000	1	no
violating blocks	64,870,407	536	8.263	183	2.929	4.694	3.694	yes
exit (1/4 mi)	104,047,812	193	1.855	73	2.644	1.054	0.054	no
major roads (1/4 mi)	9,819,599	147	14.970	148	0.993	8.505	7.505	yes
major roads (1/8 mi)	47,716,626	275	5.763	111	2.477	3.274	2.274	yes
viable housing	70,240,155	295	4.200	90	3.278	2.386	1.386	yes
dilapidated housing	30,350,660	70	2.306	26	2.692	1.310	0.310	yes
industrial	36,329,979	46	1.266	18	2.556	0.719	-0.281	no
vacant land	159,441,113	90	0.564	39	2.308	0.321	-0.679	yes
commercial	18,324,226	35	1.910	10	3.500	1.085	0.085	no

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