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My Building Permit Is Taking Too Long! Please Help!

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Lucy Shen
3 years ago

The building permit is taking too long and hurts our financial status.

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Jack James
3 years ago

The internal processes at DPP must be updated to better serve the public. Building delays, due to long permitting delays, has a costly rippling effect throughout our community. We encourage Mayor Blangiardi to make DPP a priority by completely reshaping and relaunching our permitting process..

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Jon Watase
3 years ago

Signed

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Desiree Koyanagi
3 years ago

Permits are taking too long and some contractors are getting them quicker on less time frame than others

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Patrick Nguyen
3 years ago

taking long timeee

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Robert Harper
3 years ago

Expediting the Permit and CPR Approvals CREATES JOBS!!!! For construction workers, architects, engineers, attorneys, escrow companies, realtors, home and termite inspectors, appraisers, and more!! Hawaii does not need to be in constant recession and upgrading old houses to new ones improves neighborhoods!! Win win for everyone!!

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Walden
3 years ago

Construction plays an integral part in Hawaii’s delicate economy! No permits=no jobs for local employees.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

DPP is taking too long. Ridiculous. Causing financial burdens.

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Tiffany Dela Cruz
3 years ago

We have been waiting over 1 year for the finalization of our ADU.

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Sue ann moniz
3 years ago

Please help!!!

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Anonymous
3 years ago

My permit is taking too long

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G Garner
3 years ago Featured

DPP cancelling active permits - without notifying applicants - is not the way to fix their backlog. To add insult to injury, when a cancelled permit is resubmitted, it sits in prescreen for 4 months. Please, do better.

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David fang
3 years ago

Please find a solution to this.

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Tonya Dale
3 years ago

Prescreen is the biggest holdup. Allowing AI and TPR to process and/or bypass prescreen would be a big help. With TPR, the onus already falls on the registered professionals, as well as the TPR (who is also a registered professional) to make sure codes are followed. Prescreen is mostly about formatting, not critical issues to life safety. Waiting over 4 months for a format check, then having to do it all over again when a non-pertinent comment is made by the clerks (who do not have adequate training) is completely unreasonable. I have one client who has been in prescreen twice for over 70 days each.

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Tran Vo
3 years ago

It has been 7 months since we submitted our building plan and permit application. Please help getting the process speed up so we can build our dream house.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The permit review process takes so long, it is unreasonable and inconsiderable.

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Kenji Phelps
3 years ago

Wait time is to long

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Michael Ng
3 years ago

Please expedite to resolve it!

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carol tsai
3 years ago

That sucks

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Sarah Ellis
3 years ago

I route permits for contractors and homeowners. The longest permit i had to deal with was put in to dpp in 2017 and didnt get permitted till 2020. That is just too long. Before the indictments of dpp workers the fastest permit was 3 months. Now it takes 3 months for dpp to even look at it..Once they look at it its another 6 months or more depending on how many departments it needs to go thru. We need a change. permitfacilitators808.com