HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Parking is often a premium in the free lot for recreational users at the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor.

Many of those users are concerned about the state’s latest plan to monitor how long people park there.

It’s a vehicle with a license plate reader that goes though the lots and figures out who’s been parked for longer than the six-hour limit.

“Part of this service’s contract will help the concessionaire to address the misuse and abuse of the six-hour time limit by non-recreational users, such as hotel and construction workers,” Meghan Statts, the administrator for the state Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, told the Board of Land and Natural Resources during its meeting last Friday.

Secure Parking, which already has the contract for the harbor’s paid par

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