"It's a kākou thing"

‘A‘ohe hana nui ke alu ‘ia.
“No task is too big when done together by all.”

Welcome to the Save Ala Moana Beach Park Hui website.

We hope you’ll find the site useful to getting the information and news that all of us need to understand the issues and lowering the barriers that may keep us from voicing our concerns, through thoughtful comments and testimony. You’ll also find assistance in how to submit testimony and other samples of great testimony already shared.

The next major issue is the upcoming Special Management Area Use (SMA) permitting public hearings and meetings. The Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) will take testimony from the public on SMA No. 2019/SMA-36 on December 18, 2019, starting at 10:30 a.m. at McCoy Pavilion. There will be more opportunity to provide testimony after the DPP transcript the Dec. 18^th meeting is submitted to the City Council in January 2020. We’ll keep you posted as the meetings are scheduled.

We hope the information you get from the website, will be a catalyst or springboard to create a ground-swell of SAMBPH supporters, People Power, joining in to stop the SMA from being approved before the projects we are objecting to move to permitting. We encourage everyone who loves Ala Moana Beach Park to step up and submit testimony. The stop hoped for would be in-total or with agreed upon alternatives or public approved adjustments, etc, to keep Ala Moana the People’s Park.

The site will be stronger and better if you provide suggestions/submissions of content so please feel free to share your thoughts here.

Excerpts from the history of ala mOana Park

ALA MOANA: THE PEOPLE’S PARK
by Robert Weyeneth, 1987

From the beginning it was to be a park for all the people. It grew as a result of the massive
federal experiment with public works projects during the Great Depression and survives as a monument to the ingenuity, imagination, and perseverance of local park proponents. (pg. 2)

Unlike the origins of Kapiolani Park, Ala Moana would be “the people’s park.” (pg. 3)

While park acreage at Ala Moana
was increased in the sixties, pressure to transform the new land
into a hotel district was resisted, a remarkable achievement for
a city (and a state) that have operated largely obliviously to
the risks of over-development. (pg. 4)

"It's a kākou thing"

‘A‘ohe hana nui ke alu ‘ia.“No task is too big when done together by all.”

Excerpts from the history of ala mOana Park

ALA MOANA: THE PEOPLE’S PARKby Robert Weyeneth, 1987

From the beginning it was to be a park for all the people. It grew as a result of the massivefederal experiment with public works projects during the Great Depression and survives as a monument to the ingenuity, imagination, and perseverance of local park proponents. (pg. 2)

Unlike the origins of Kapiolani Park, Ala Moana would be “the people’s park.” (pg. 3)

While park acreage at Ala Moanawas increased in the sixties, pressure to transform the new landinto a hotel district was resisted, a remarkable achievement fora city (and a state) that have operated largely obliviously tothe risks of over-development. (pg. 4)

‘A‘ohe hana nui ke alu ‘ia.
“No task is too big when done together by all.”

ALA MOANA: THE PEOPLE’S PARK
by Robert Weyeneth, 1987

From the beginning it was to be a park for all the people. It grew as a result of the massive
federal experiment with public works projects during the Great Depression and survives as a monument to the ingenuity, imagination, and perseverance of local park proponents. (pg. 2)

While park acreage at Ala Moana
was increased in the sixties, pressure to transform the new land
into a hotel district was resisted, a remarkable achievement for
a city (and a state) that have operated largely obliviously to
the risks of over-development. (pg. 4)