Here’s a website that could grow into something very interesting:fixhonoluludpp.com
The site is soliciting both stories of problems with Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting, as well as suggestions for reforms. Both currently have only a few entries, but they are already interesting.
Check it out. Just click on the graphic below, which links to the site.
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That site does not have an “about” page, and the owner is not listed on ICAAN.org. It would be nice to know a little more, including what they intend to do with the information.
Great website. There is a glitch in it where it won’t let you post on it unless you fill out the optional box. Then it will let you post.
This poorly designed black box of a web site appears to assume that all the problems involving approvals and regulation of development by DPP. Obviously there has been some corruption at DPP based on the guilty pleas of the folks identified in the recent Federal investigation but there is little evidence that this is the major cause for many of the problems listed on this site. I know many of the people who were charged with controlling illegal vacation rentals or regulating monster homes. The problem was that the laws and policies that DPP had to operate under created impossible situations where it was difficult to document or prove violations. Add to that problems of recruiting and retaining staff, the high volume of reviews and the low quality of plan and permit submittals from some applicants who expected DPP to check their work for them