On Thursday, February 15, 2018, at 4:00pm, "Diamond Head Den" (DBA Denny's) located at 2583 Kuhio Ave, Honolulu, HI (southwest corner of Kuhio Ave and Kapahulu Ave in Waikiki) will be requesting a liquor license be granted to them at their 24 hour/day restaurant. This corner has been an empty lot for approximately 20 years. Please consider joining us at the liquor commission office located at 711 Kapiolani Blvd. Ste 600 in Honolulu at 4 p.m. on February 15th regarding license application number 18-12545.
We live next door to this business and completely oppose alcohol being served or permitted in this area for several reasons.
1. There are 1,700 Denny's restaurants in the U.S. No other Denny's in the state of Hawaii serves alcohol.
2. This Denny's is within 66 feet of Jefferson Elementary School. Children are arriving on campus as early as 6 a.m. Alcohol should not be sold, served, or consumed as close as two traffic lanes away from the playground and where students as young as 5 years old will be walking on or across the Denny's property to get school on a daily basis. Contrary to section 281-39.5(a) of Hawaii revised statutes, "The liquor commission or agency of each county may deny or restrict the issuance of a liquor license for on-site sale and consumption to any applicant whose establishment is or would be located within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary, intermediate, or high school, or public playground utilized extensively by minors, as determined by the liquor commission of each county. The distance of five hundred feet shall be measured from the boundary of the school or public playground to the boundary of the applicant's premises."
3. This location is surrounded on 3 sides by residential condos where families, including children and students reside. Community members are trying to live, work, and go to school within feet of proposed alcohol consumption and sales.
4. This is a free standing building adjacent to a permeable (and vulnerable) school campus. Denny's is not comparable to Lulu's, Hula's, or Mac 24/7 which are all nearby because they are all located INSIDE a hotel with businesses surrounding on each side. These hotels have security. To date, no security plan for the community has been presented.
5. Denny's is in very close proximity to the Honolulu Zoo where high volumes of families and children are present. It is a 200 seat restaurant with only 9 parking stalls. Guests who may be drinking will be sharing the parking lot with families who visit the zoo and/or parking on or near the school campus.
6. The crime rate has already gone up in our quiet little corner of the neighborhood and selling liquor 20 hours/day will only increase the chances and instances of crime in, on, or around our little residential corner. Denny's is primarily a breakfast location. There is no need for them to sell hard liquor 20 hours/day. The late night / early morning crowd a full liquor license will attract from Waikiki will create more noise, lighting, safety issues, congestion, and crime.
Please sign this petition so that we can stop the Liquor Commission from granting Diamond Head Denny's an alcohol license. We already have enough loud, late night liquor licensees nearby, and are not interested in having them sell beer/wine/hard liquor mere feet from the elementary school and just outside the front doors or under the lanai of our homes.
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Updates
January 8, 2018
Seeing this community unite over the safety of our children has been truly overwhelming. Knowing that my neighbors and fellow residents are fighting this alongside me brings me profound relief.
Reached 100 supporters
January 8, 2018
69 Comments
1. Bars/alcohol do not belong in neighborhoods in this close proximity to T. E. Jefferson Elementary school--it is just an accident waiting to happen. 2/ loitering/vagrancy by inebriated customers 3/ litter 4/ noise at all hours from inebriated customers
I live next door and support the business, but do not support the sale of alcohol here. There are already enough intoxicated people yelling and screaming when the bars close at 2am that we don't need more. And this close to a school is inexcusable.
I'm signing this petition, for several reasons but the main one is fear of once this liquor license is issued its hard to be taken away but easy to be expanded and sold to a new owner of this building should the Denny's prove not profitable
This is a family oriented area. Quite unlike the hotel tourist areas. Granting a liquor license flies in the face of placing children and families safety and well being first. The zoo across Kapahulu is a family friendly center. In the face of child safety; neighborhood safety; community culture, it seems beyond reason this license could be granted.
How did a 200-seat restaurant acquire the right to build in the first place with only 10 parking spaces?! And now a liquor license? We neighboring residents were told Denny’s would serve only beer and wine. We do not want any of the side effects of this. No, no, no ... please reject this license!
No no liquor at Dennys
Stop the excess!
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On Thursday, February 15, 2018, at 4:00pm, "Diamond Head Den" (DBA Denny's) located at 2583 Kuhio Ave, Honolulu, HI (southwest corner of Kuhio Ave and Kapahulu Ave in Waikiki) will be requesting a liquor license be granted to them at their 24 hour/day restaurant. This corner has been an empty lot for approximately 20 years. Please consider joining us at the liquor commission office located at 711 Kapiolani Blvd. Ste 600 in Honolulu at 4 p.m. on February 15th regarding license application number 18-12545.
We live next door to this business and completely oppose alcohol being served or permitted in this area for several reasons.
1. There are 1,700 Denny's restaurants in the U.S. No other Denny's in the state of Hawaii serves alcohol.
2. This Denny's is within 66 feet of Jefferson Elementary School. Children are arriving on campus as early as 6 a.m. Alcohol should not be sold, served, or consumed as close as two traffic lanes away from the playground and where students as young as 5 years old will be walking on or across the Denny's property to get school on a daily basis. Contrary to section 281-39.5(a) of Hawaii revised statutes, "The liquor commission or agency of each county may deny or restrict the issuance of a liquor license for on-site sale and consumption to any applicant whose establishment is or would be located within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary, intermediate, or high school, or public playground utilized extensively by minors, as determined by the liquor commission of each county. The distance of five hundred feet shall be measured from the boundary of the school or public playground to the boundary of the applicant's premises."
3. This location is surrounded on 3 sides by residential condos where families, including children and students reside. Community members are trying to live, work, and go to school within feet of proposed alcohol consumption and sales.
4. This is a free standing building adjacent to a permeable (and vulnerable) school campus. Denny's is not comparable to Lulu's, Hula's, or Mac 24/7 which are all nearby because they are all located INSIDE a hotel with businesses surrounding on each side. These hotels have security. To date, no security plan for the community has been presented.
5. Denny's is in very close proximity to the Honolulu Zoo where high volumes of families and children are present. It is a 200 seat restaurant with only 9 parking stalls. Guests who may be drinking will be sharing the parking lot with families who visit the zoo and/or parking on or near the school campus.
6. The crime rate has already gone up in our quiet little corner of the neighborhood and selling liquor 20 hours/day will only increase the chances and instances of crime in, on, or around our little residential corner. Denny's is primarily a breakfast location. There is no need for them to sell hard liquor 20 hours/day. The late night / early morning crowd a full liquor license will attract from Waikiki will create more noise, lighting, safety issues, congestion, and crime.
Please sign this petition so that we can stop the Liquor Commission from granting Diamond Head Denny's an alcohol license. We already have enough loud, late night liquor licensees nearby, and are not interested in having them sell beer/wine/hard liquor mere feet from the elementary school and just outside the front doors or under the lanai of our homes.
*** After you sign, it will prompt you for a donation. Just close out the window and you will be signed without having to donate. *** PLEASE FORWARD TO WAIKIKI NEIGHBORS
Updates
January 8, 2018
Seeing this community unite over the safety of our children has been truly overwhelming. Knowing that my neighbors and fellow residents are fighting this alongside me brings me profound relief.
Reached 100 supporters
January 8, 2018
69 Comments
My children spend enough sleepless nights week in and week out with crazed-out drunks roaming our streets screaming at the top of their voices. Why add to that potential, as this is a residential area alongside it being a school zone.
1. Bars/alcohol do not belong in neighborhoods in this close proximity to T. E. Jefferson Elementary school--it is just an accident waiting to happen. 2/ loitering/vagrancy by inebriated customers 3/ litter 4/ noise at all hours from inebriated customers
I live next door and support the business, but do not support the sale of alcohol here. There are already enough intoxicated people yelling and screaming when the bars close at 2am that we don't need more. And this close to a school is inexcusable.
I'm signing this petition, for several reasons but the main one is fear of once this liquor license is issued its hard to be taken away but easy to be expanded and sold to a new owner of this building should the Denny's prove not profitable
This is a family oriented area. Quite unlike the hotel tourist areas. Granting a liquor license flies in the face of placing children and families safety and well being first. The zoo across Kapahulu is a family friendly center. In the face of child safety; neighborhood safety; community culture, it seems beyond reason this license could be granted.
How did a 200-seat restaurant acquire the right to build in the first place with only 10 parking spaces?! And now a liquor license? We neighboring residents were told Denny’s would serve only beer and wine. We do not want any of the side effects of this. No, no, no ... please reject this license!
No no liquor at Dennys
Stop the excess!
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My children spend enough sleepless nights week in and week out with crazed-out drunks roaming our streets screaming at the top of their voices. Why add to that potential, as this is a residential area alongside it being a school zone.