HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials in Hawaii next month 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.
The new permitting center will help private developers building five separate projects with a combined total of more than 500 housing units.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is building 169 temporary housing units for displaced residents and is renting 1,300 units from landlords.
The state of Hawaii is building about 450 temporary housing units, including 270 that will be ready by July or August.
The state's temporary units are expected to be used for three to five years.
Persons:
Keanu Lau Hee, Lau Hee, “, ”
Organizations:
—, Maui, University of Hawaii, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Locations:
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Lahaina, we’re, Maui County