LIHU‘E — The county’s vision for a one-stop permitting operation could soon become a reality.

The challenges of location, logistics and staffing standing in the way of a single location in the county’s Civic Center should be resolved next month, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. said in a meeting last week at his office.

“Team leaders have assured me by September we’ll be up and running,” Carvalho said in the interview.

Under the proposal, applicants for Class I and II permits will bring their plans to the kiosk, currently under construction in the Kapule Building near the existing Motor Vehicle Registration.

One “soft copy” of the paperwork will be distributed to various governmental agencies — including the departments of Water, Health and Fire — electronically all at once.

Within 30 days, the applicant will get their plans back.

The trick, Carvalho said, is making sure the application is complete with all the information required by all departments. That staffing requirement, along with some technology hardware snags, are what have held the project back.

The trips from one agency to another may soon be a thing of the past.