Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Mahalo to Mayor Rick Blangiardi for joining us to discuss new updates at the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting.

In this ongoing series about Honolulu’s notoriously troubled Department of Planning and Permitting, we seek to explain the failures, inequities and inefficiencies in Oahu’s permitting process and explore solutions that would make the system work better for everyone: civilbeat.org/projects/permit-pileup