Portions of Ala Wai Community Park and next-door Ala Wai Neighborhood Park will be closed 24-hours-a-day for maintenance projects from Wednesday through Dec. 26, the city Department of Parks and Recreation announced today.

The community park sits along Kalakaua Avenue and Kapiolani Boulevard. The neighborhood park is next door and at the end of University Avenue.

Park amenities that do not require maintenance are excluded from the closures. Those include the baseball fields, a soccer field, parking lots, recreation building, community garden, dog park and canoe hale buildings, the city said.

Activities allowed with permits as well as Parks and Recreation-sponsored classes and programs will continue as scheduled. Regular park hours will apply to areas excluded from the 24-hour closures. Posted closure hours are 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily for the neighborhood park and 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily for the community park.

Comfort stations will be closed, but portables are being brought in, Parks Director Michele Nekota told the Council Parks, Community and Customer Service Committee today.

Projects to be undertaken during the closures include planting of new grass fertilizing, aerating, tree trimming, graffiti removal and comfort station cleaning.

Three other nearby parks — Old Stadium Park, Moiliili Community Park (also known as Moiliili Field) and Crane Park — were closed completely for maintenance at the beginning of September. They are scheduled to remain closed through Nov. 5.

Several dozen homeless people who have been camping at those three parks were forced to leave, and a number reportedly set up tents at Ala Wai.

But Nekota told the parks committee today that removing homeless from the parks is not the priority.

“We’re just maintaining the areas that need to be maintained,” she said.