A bill that would have put a cap on rates for private parking lots in the Historic Kailua Village is dead.
Hawai‘i County Council Member Rebecca Villegas first introduced Bill 132 during the council’s Policy Committee on Public Works and Mass Transit on March 3. The measure was postponed three times over concerns about the legality of mandated pricing for the owners of the private lots.
“It’s become apparent that it could potentially jeopardize the county and taxpayer dollars in a lawsuit, and I don’t want to do that,” Villegas said Tuesday during the latest committee meeting. “But I don’t think it’s been a waste of time because it’s elevated this issue of paid parking to a level that just about everybody’s been talking about.”…