Police issue flurry of citations during Lanikai parking ban
STAR-ADVERTISER / DEC. 2014
Parked cars and beachgoers were seen along Kaelepulu Drive near Lanikai. Honolulu police officers issued nearly 300 citations, most of them for illegal parking, over the Presidents Day weekend in Lanikai.
Honolulu police officers issued 296 citations, including 231 for illegal parking, in Lanikai during the Presidents Day weekend to enforce the no-parking regulations.
The remaining 65 citations were for traffic (moving) violations and violating park rules.
Two vehicles were towed; one was parked in a tow zone and the other was blocking a driveway.
There were 12 parking-related complaints to 911 as compared to 30-40 parking complaints on typical weekends, police said.
The parking ban is a city pilot program aimed to ease the congestion in the area.
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Should just have a bunch of tow wagons in th area, that should send them a message!
I only got my toe jam football, he got. ..
You mean send them the message that the police and government only work for wealthy people who don’t want you poor or middle class people coming anywhere near THEIR beach or their homes? This is really sickening to me.
+1
Can’t agree more.
Sounds like a Bernie Sanders voter. “Feel the Bern”
Not for just the rich, when you want to send a message, the tow trucks will say they mean it.
Take the bus and maybe you won’t feel so sick.
More results from Kailua HATERS group trying to stop the public from enjoying Lanikai. Same few that are trying to stop grandma from running the B & B’s. Just what people need to love Hawaii getting fined for going to the Beach.
Got to love the laws in Hawaii that are nothing more than harassment.
Does Hawaii have 19th century anti sodomy laws on the book like various places in the South do? After all, the place was colonized by self righteous missionaries.
I doubt its grandma running the B&B…The people running the B&Bs are the same rich folk that doesn’t want the heathen locals to parks in their neighborhood. Its ok for them & their “house guests” not for YOU or ME.
You are so misinformed. You need to learn more about this issue before you attack other on these blogs.
Until the city buses go directly to Lanikai Beach from Honolulu, people will not be willing to wait another hour for the transfer bus. This will only invite them to drive there.
A city bus does run through the entire Lanikai neighborhood from Kailua town. It connects near the KMCBH and in Kailua town. Many visitors (especially Japanese tourists) and locals use these buses. It runs about once an hour. Easier than trying to find a spot to park. But on crowded weekends, that bus is trapped with the parade of parked cars in Lanikai. So the hourly route run, turns into 2 hours typically, with one hour just sitting in stopped traffic.
The shuttle the city added (another bus or two) increased frequency to every half an hour. TheBus website had a schedule of the shuttle. Obviously, a higher frequency is better.
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WARD. Are you a GED teacher?
“MIKE” YOU should return to your roosting-bench on Fort Street Mall, where you solicit HOMELESS PERSONS for “PERSONAL FAVORS”.
I’m not seeing your point. You have a problem with “flurry?” If so, it seems you didn’t read the definition you cut and pasted.
Why is this happening? Are these private streets in Lanikai? If private, close it off to all non-residents.
No its public roads controlled by rich residents. But maybe you have a great idea. Why doesn’t the C&C of Honolulu sell it to the residents of the area…might be a great way to generate money to line the pockets of the mayor.
Tired of reading these attacks on “rich” by people who have no idea of the real composition of this neighborhood. Proof is the actual question about whether or not these are private streets. The core issue is about public safety for everyone, including those who come to the beach and pillbox trails in droves on weekends. These people are both locals and visitors. The EMS and HFD units can hardly get through the neighborhood because of all the parking jams on the streets. The emergency services are coming into Lanikai just as much (if not more) to rescue visitors at beach, out at the Mokes, or on the Pillbox trail. NOT just residents in their homes. In fact, the Lanikai Community Park is typically used as a make-shift landing pad (by chasing everyone out) for the HFD rescue helicopter. Every weekend, you can hear a parade of sirens into and out of Lanikai each day, sometimes, 2 or 3 times a day. This isn’t an issue of rich vs poor, restricting beach access, or even trying to stop the parking. It’s about the ability to drive through a neighborhood by emergency vehicles, city buses, or even other large commercial vehicles…because people do NOT KNOW HOW TO PARK A CAR OFF THE STREET!??!
If the core issue is about public safety, rather than restricting parking, why not condemn a portion of the land owners property and create a second lane and legal parking spaces? By doing so, you’ll be accommodating the majority (The thousands who don’t live in Lanikai and want to enjoy the beach) rather than the minority (Lanikai residents).
Well said but I’m afraid your reasoning falls on deaf ears; witness Derick’s comment below. He wants to spend taxpayer money to buy land and create parking because he is too lazy to take the bus.
lee1957,
Based on my comment, not sure how you come to the conclusion I’m too lazy to take the bus. There is a problem and I’m just making a suggestion. As for tax payer’s money, what’s wrong with spending tax revenue to improve quality of life for the majority?
Derrick,
It’s because your propose solution is in the tens of millions of dollars that can be solved by riding the bus. Condemned land isn’t free, you must pay for it. The majority isn’t going to Lanikai on holiday weekend so that argument won’t hold water.
All of the gridlock on the freeways not to mention the parking problems pretty much everywhere would be solved if people rode The Bus. Is that your watertight solution to those problems?
The parking ban is a city pilot program aimed to ease the congestion in the area(and to increase their coffers).
Kailua and Lani-kai….Area that RICH AND SHAMLESS LIVE… Now “THEy” want no one to come to there little resort area.. No parking, next will come by no walking on th beach,
maybe after that its going to be “show me your papers??” Trust me… its going to get worse…
It’s not like that any more actually. In the last 6-8 years, Kailua has turned on a dime into a crime-ridden dump. Yes, there are super expensive homes and waterfronts (but so does Ewa Beach and Waianae), but in the regular neighborhoods it’s not as pretty a picture and most tend to believe. Traffic and crime in the area are horrendous. Even Macys packed up and ran.
Highly doubt Macy’s decision was based on crime in the area.
Probably wasn’t. My post was about a lot more than crime.
I live in Kailua, feel free to park in front of my house and walk to the beach. Papers not required.
Hawaii’s lawmakers fail to accommodate the public, and wonder why we break the law.
After tourism revenues in Hawaii, the next money making cash cow for the State is by fining and citing us with the harassment ordinances of the frivolous lawmaker’s decision.
296 citations X $35 each = $10,360. Not a lot of money by gov’t standards. This isn’t a cash cow effort.
Limiting beach access and eroding our state constitution one wealthy neighborhood at a time. Great job everyone!
What’s a parking ticket…..$35? Meh, Convenient parking for a fee, no biggie. Plus you may get lucky and get it for free. No wonder nobody cared.
LOL! Exactly!
Yes, precisely! It’s why the tickets for parking in the bike lanes was increased to $200. People don’t care about paying $35 for a parking citation. Thats one night in Waikiki!
“…Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
— Abraham Lincoln
The people have spoken in droves. They want access to Lanikai. For the County to eliminate all streetside parking without creating a reasonable alternative is in direct opposition to the wishes of those wanting to visit Lanikai. The County created the mess that resulted in the issuance of hundreds of parking tickets through its lack of planning. All those tickets should be thrown out, and those in the County that initiated this policy should be chastised.
The tickets are legal, as was explained to everyone in a public meeting. They are being cited for a long standing law that is already on the books, but rarely ever enforced “anywhere” on the island. You cannot park on an ‘area designated by the C&C as an unimproved sidewalk’. All the space inside a four foot zone from the edge of the street, in towards each homeowners property is considered an “unimproved sidewalk”. Thus, if a car is there, it is illegally parked as far as the City and HPD are concerned. The true tangible complaint is, why doesn’t the city create sidewalks in this area…as the residents in this neighborhood have asked for. It would eliminate the parking issue and create a safe path for a heavily used and needed high volume of pedestrians here. But the C&C have repeatedly stated it is too costly a project to do now. Lanikai residents (and Kailua in general) pay some of the highest property taxes on the island. It’s well within their reasonable expectation to assume that the City should be reinvesting some of those funds back into a neighborhood that is under so much pressure by the visitors/tourists.
In other words, free street parking became paid street parking that probably won’t cover HPD and court costs.
What a bunch of crap! Why can’t people park there. Is it a fire hazard? Are they parking on private lands? Do the homeowners own the land right up to the black top of the road?…or is it just a bunch of Lanikai homeowners up in their britches because the public is doing what they have the right to do? These are one of those instances where it seems like the cops should be doing something that serves the public better. Why not roam the beach for illegal drinking/smoking. Clear out homeless from where ever. Catch speeders. Ticketing people for parking on public roads is a farce. If there is enough room to drive a firetruck through, I don’t see the big issue.
These unimproved areas even if belonging to the City are not parking spaces here or anywhere else.
To my knowledge/experience it has been that way for more than 40+ years, and if you explore the situation you will discover that the majority of the parking is due to the residents of Lanikai themselves.