Residents who live near Isenberg Street in Honolulu raise concerns about a paid street parking plan by the city that has been in the works since 2017.
HONOLULU (Island News) — Monique Arenas has never had a problem finding free parking close to home on Isenberg Street.
But that could soon change.
The city’s putting up dozens of parking meters on Isenberg Street from Kapiolani Boulevard to Beretania.
“It’s very, very costly to be here and any way that we can kind of cut the costs and just live and have good quality of life without having to think every second of the day, ‘Oh my gosh, we need to go pay the meter. Oh my gosh, I need to move my car.'”
A City Council spokesman said the project was approved in 2017 after a constituent complained about abandoned vehicles and parking turnover.
The Department of Transportation Services then conducted a study and decided …