A planned two-story, single-family home with nine bathrooms, no side yards and insufficient parking that the city originally granted a building permit to in 2022 but now calls a gross violation of the city’s “monster homes” ordinance had its building permit revoked Tuesday.
During the still-ongoing construction phase, headlines about cracks in need of repair on the concrete elevated guideway and supports, and about rail and wheel widths not quite matching up gave an already skeptical public more reason for worry.
The upcoming closure of Walmart on King Street in downtown Honolulu is the loss of another grocery store and pharmacy in an area trying to draw more families and working professionals. The Conversation spoke to Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam about the city's efforts to ease some restrictions under the housing code.