07-23-2013, 11:47 PM
Not to burst your bubble, but "expediters" aren't going to be able to help you get your plans through the building department any faster. The new process for submitting plans is that you apply and drop off your plans with the building department. Then you go home and wait for three months or so. Then you either look online to see that your plans are ready or you go in to the building department and find out that they have been ready for a couple weeks but nobody bothered to let you know.
You no longer have to take plans from department to department to get approved. The State Health department comes to building to approve that part of the plans and the plans are carried by clerks to planning for approval by the building department. The bottleneck in the process is the building department's plan reviewers who must get some guilty pleasure out of seeing their stacks of unreviewed plans grow and grow and grow each week. I know the mayor must enjoy this as he is the one responsible for it.
Sit back, relax and welcome to Hawaii!
You no longer have to take plans from department to department to get approved. The State Health department comes to building to approve that part of the plans and the plans are carried by clerks to planning for approval by the building department. The bottleneck in the process is the building department's plan reviewers who must get some guilty pleasure out of seeing their stacks of unreviewed plans grow and grow and grow each week. I know the mayor must enjoy this as he is the one responsible for it.
Sit back, relax and welcome to Hawaii!