Many homeless people are unhappy after a recent proposal to ban individuals from sitting or lying down on sidewalks within the renowned surfing and tourist Mecca. The city council of Honolulu voted on a 'sit-lie ban' on Wednesday.

The Honolulu-Waikiki sit-lie ban was set in place following pressure from the local tourism industry. The ban is aiming to prevent homeless individuals from occupying the sidewalks and street-sides.

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The plans to eradicate the homeless has stemmed from multiple ongoing complaints made by locals, business owners, and tourists.

"People were lying down near the entrance to Macy's, with trash and human excrement on covering the nearby sidewalks", said a local business owner. He also explained that it's a sore site and it is "difficult for the customers to continuous explain the homeless' situation to their children."

Some are saying that these conditions are far from what tourists have envisioned when saving and spending substantial amounts of money on their vacations.

Those among many others are the direct complaints from the tourism industry officials who pressed for the ban on sitting and lying down in or around the popular tourist destinations.

Late Wednesday the City's council approved several parameters aimed toward relocating the homeless people out of the particular tourist hotspots. This includes setting measures to prevent sitting and lying down on sidewalks or street-sides in the Waikiki area.

Honolulu city officials are making arrangements to move the homeless people to a containment camp in a remote industrial section of the Sand Island - in an attempt to keep them out of the heavily tourist-populated areas.

The bill for the encampment plans is currently awaiting the Mayor Kirk Caldwell's approval.

The lease among other stipulations regarding the detainment camp will be discussed in a state board meeting on Friday morning.

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