The City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting hopes to reduce its building permit backlog by removing applications that have been idle for a year or longer.
The department said, effectively immediately, it will expire applications that have had no activity for more than 365 days. This includes permits that have been approved or issued but not picked up.
DPP said those idle applications appear as “in progress” in its current software system, POSSE. The plans also take up physical space at its office. The department hopes to free up the space when it upgrades its software this summer…