Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi defended the troubled rollout of new building permit software in August and lambasted critics at a City Council meeting on Sept. 25. The software was meant to speed up construction approvals has not gone smoothly, with permits being issued much slower than they were a year ago. Speeding up building permits was a top campaign promise in Blangiardi’s 2020 run for mayor and again when he was reelected last year. However, average permitting times have worsened througho

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