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This Concurrent Resolution requests the Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) of the City and County of Honolulu to make all its decisions about granting or denying waivers and variances publicly available on its website. Waivers are exceptions to specific building and land use rules that the DPP Director can grant under certain conditions, while variances are similar exceptions that can be granted if applying the standard zoning rules would cause an unnecessary hardship. The resolution highlights concerns about transparency, referencing past legal cases and a recent indictment of DPP employees for alleged corruption, suggesting that publishing these decisions will improve public trust by allowing people to easily check if applications are handled fairly and consistently.