The Honolulu City Council voted unanimously Wednesday on the second of three readings for a measure that initially sought to end years of corruption within the city Department of Planning and Permitting.
The original bill materialized around the time a former city Department of Planning and Permitting supervisor and four other DPP employees were sentenced in connection with a lucrative bribery scheme.
Kudos and mahalo to Mayor Rick Blangiardi for the new Chinatown surveillance cameras (“City installs new surveillance cameras,” Star-Advertiser, Sept. 26).
A newly proposed measure to amend the city’s Land Use Ordinance to require builders of so-called monster homes on Oahu to pay $25,000 or greater fines has passed an initial hurdle.