The Honolulu City Council overrode Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s veto of a recent bill to expand the ban on sitting and lying down to additional parts of Honolulu. Caldwell vetoed the council’s sit-lie bill in April of 2015 because it ranged from commercial areas like Waikiki to areas like the bank of a canal where a small tent city has emerged (photo). The mayor said the law could face legal challenges if it appeared the city was targeting homeless people. He said he did not want to jeopardize all the laws the city had passed banning sitting and lying down in Waikiki and other parts of Oahu. But a majority of the council decided to go ahead with the expansion, saying it would bring parity to neighborhoods that have had an influx of homeless people since the ban went into effect in Waikiki. The council plans to take up proposals to expand the bans further.
Rico says they just need a good snowstorm to solve their homeless problem. (Okay, not gonna happen...) But of course they're targeting homeless people... Who else lies down on the streets?
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