Lawsuit over EPIC system moves ahead

HUGH ONO

Patrick K. Wong

This small, shorefront home in the Milolii Beach Lots subdivision is the focus of a lawsuit over the county’s Electronic Processing and Information Center (EPIC) building permitting system.

Oral arguments have been scheduled in a lawsuit in which a Milolii homeowner is suing the county, alleging its Electronic Processing and Information Center system, known as EPIC, has trapped him in a permitting catch-22 that will allow him only to demolish his home — which is in a shoreline management area — not to remodel or live in it.

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