Honolulu could face a similar legal battle if the council passes the island wide sit-lie ban.“They’re going to walk themselves right into a lawsuit if they pass that,” said Nickolas Kacprowski, an attorney at Alston Hunt Floyd and Ing.   Still, Councilman Ernie Martin wrote that his bill is an answer to a homelessness problem that he said has “taken possession of public areas to the detriment of the tax paying general public.”  

It's like the City Council has forgotten that even homeless people are still citizens of the State of Hawaii and County of Honolulu and even as homeless, they still pay excise taxes on purchases they make; So at it's core definition, even the Homeless are part of "the General Public" at large.

As to the City Council's answers to the homeless problem, neither they nor the Mayor have come up with any viable solutions; as what they have tried, has failed to garner much support from the homeless, who don't seem to want to use the shelters available.

Total fail