{"id":222611,"date":"2026-05-29T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/honolulu-planning-office-uses-turbotax-like-ai-tool-to-help-applicants-reduce-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:45:19","slug":"honolulu-planning-office-uses-turbotax-like-ai-tool-to-help-applicants-reduce-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/honolulu-planning-office-uses-turbotax-like-ai-tool-to-help-applicants-reduce-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu planning office uses &#8216;TurboTax-like&#8217; AI tool to help applicants reduce mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/honolulu-planning-office-ai-tool-reduce-mistakes\/\">Honolulu planning office uses &#8216;TurboTax-like&#8217; AI tool to help applicants reduce mistakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/honolulu-planning-office-ai-tool-reduce-mistakes\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/honolulu-planning-office-ai-tool-reduce-mistakes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 15:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honolulu\u2019s Department of Planning and Permitting has introduced &#8220;AI Studio,&#8221; an artificial intelligence tool from Canadian firm Clariti, to address residential permitting backlogs.<\/li>\n<li>The AI tool assists in identifying code issues, missing information, and potential problem areas within applications, thus improving application quality and streamlining the review process.<\/li>\n<li>Director Dawn Takeuchi Apuna likens the AI\u2019s functionality to TurboTax for permitting, asserting it directs applicants through better quality applications leading to fewer review cycles and speedier turnarounds.<\/li>\n<li>The technology has reportedly cut residential review times by approximately 60% by guiding applicants to adhere to code requirements before reaching staff reviewers.<\/li>\n<li>Honolulu utilizes the AI tool for residential permits initially but plans to expand its use to commercial permitting this summer and may eventually mandate its use for all applicants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu planning office uses &#8216;TurboTax-like&#8217; AI tool to help applicants reduce mistakes https:\/\/statescoop.com\/honolulu-planning-office-ai-tool-reduce-mistakes\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2249047176.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-222611","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\/222611"}],"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=222611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222613,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222611\/revisions\/222613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}