Lanikai Beach War Brewing? Kailua Nabe Board Affairs
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I track goings on in Kailua because its one of my favorite places to visit and the beaches are superb. We usually go to Kailua Beach Park because parking is easy. Lanikai is as pretty and a nice change of pace but parking is a pain. Now there are signs that the Kailua Neighborhood Board, which pretty much epitomizes the "Pull Up the Ladder" mentality in Hawaii, is looking at ways to stamp out parking on unimproved road shoulders near Lanikai. That is, all parking near Lanikai.
Which is fine if you live in Kailua and can ride your bike to the beach on the area's lovely bike paths. Of course, most tourists aren't renting bikes to toodle around Kailua. Then again, most locals on Oahu are not renting bikes to toodle around Kailua either. So new parking prohibitions would likely have the effect of locking out non-Kailua residents. Which has already happened on the far side of Kailua Bay, where a millionaire's row of homes and blanket parking prohibitions on Kaiulana Loop have effectively turned that corner of Hawaii into Palm Beach, Florida, where if you don't own a home you can't park near the beach.
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Comments
Lanikai Resident said:
ALL Oahu unimproved sidewalks are illegal to park on. They are supposed to be sidewalks for pedestrians to walk on. Don’t you think it’s rather inconsiderate for people to park their cars on a sidewalk?
As far as North Kalaheo area, there is a beach access 50 feet from Kailuana and I have parked there many times and walked to the beach.
Who fed you this bogus info?
—04/10/07
Don said:
Lanikai is a residential area, restricted in size by physical geography. Accordingly, it’s infrastructure (including the beach) is limited also. For instance, since there are no rest room facilities, did you ever wonder what non-resident beachgoers do when they have to go? Roads are also narrow with limited capacity and roadside parking can only handle that incident to residential activities.
Your insight that Kailua Beach Park is the better facility for non-residents is well-based. For the sake of preventing pollution in our ocean waters and the excesses that arise from over-crowding a small area, please continue to tout the Beach Park instead of Lanikai. It is in that manner that you can help prevent a “war” instead of inciting one.
—04/10/07