University of Hawaii researchers have found that in the last five years, the state's median wait time for a construction permit to build a multifamily project was 400 days.
Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will speed up Maui County's notoriously slow processing of building permits to help the town of Lahaina to recover from last year's deadly wildfire.
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