{"id":177195,"date":"2026-01-12T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:20:15","slug":"honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu Is Among Cities Bringing AI to Planning, Permitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting\">Honolulu Is Among Cities Bringing AI to Planning, Permitting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 19:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honolulu has introduced CivCheck, a new AI technology tool, to streamline and expedite development project planning and permitting through early error detection and compliance checking.<\/li>\n<li>The software, developed by CivCheck, uses artificial intelligence to help applicants ensure they meet code regulations and submit all necessary documents, reducing review times and back-and-forth communication with the city.<\/li>\n<li>As of mid-December, CivCheck has reduced the prescreen backlog and significantly cut wait times from a six-month period to within seven days.<\/li>\n<li>CivCheck emphasizes a \u201chuman-in-the-loop\u201d approach to augment, not replace, plan reviewers by assisting human professionals with information organization and flagging code issues.<\/li>\n<li>Similar AI trend is seen in other cities like Louisville, where a Govstream.ai pilot project aims at addressing delays in residential construction permits, with a focus on operational AI integration in existing workflows.<\/li>\n<li>CivCheck aims to improve the permitting process by producing higher-quality and more complete applications, thereby reducing unnecessary review cycles and making applicants more well-informed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu Is Among Cities Bringing AI to Planning, Permitting https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/honolulu-is-among-cities-bringing-ai-to-planning-permitting Publish Date: 2026-01-12 19:21:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/73e746a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/660x321+0+60\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F59%2F5d%2Fd4538836c518b288aaa964a25627%2Fhonolulu.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177197,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177195\/revisions\/177197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}