Law bans commercial activities at some beaches

HONOLULU (KHON2) – Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi signed a invoice into law that regulates professional things to do at seashore parks on the east facet of Oahu on Tuesday, April 5.

The legislation impacts seashores from Waimānalo to Makapu’u. This also features Hūnānāniho previously referred to as Waimānalo Bay Beach Park.

The bill regulates any business activity these types of as marriage pictures and tour bus stops. It does enable moive or tv filming.

These seashores can be applied for formal canoe regattas, tunes festivals, place fairs, farmers marketplaces, instructional situations/youth sporting activities events organized by establishments identified by the Office of Education.

“Now this is not an all a non circumstance,” stated Blangiardi. “We can harmony the legal rights of our area citizens, regard our purely natural assets and support our nearby firms if we do the job together on an island broad remedy, and I know we can do improved.”

We are both of those let down and devastated by Mayor Blangiardi’s selection to signal Monthly bill 38 into law. This blanket ban overtly discriminates from local, little enterprises that operate in public sites, but exempts significant, mainland output studios at these very same spots. In spite of the outcry of thousands in our local community, it is surprising that our elected officials would continue on to assistance laws that is so deeply unpopular. We will keep on to thrust our elected officials to appear again to the table and will struggle for a extra just and balanced solution that doesn’t damage tiny firms, and the nearby households that depend on them.

Joseph Esser
Oahu Wedding day Affiliation President

Council Member Esther Kiaʻāina launched Invoice 38 which the Honolulu Metropolis Council handed on Wednesday, March 16.