Oʻahu · Neighborhood Board No. 13

Downtown-Chinatown

ZIP code: 96813

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Every record the Ledger reads that places an item in this board area by its tax map key or map point, newest and upcoming first, from all sources at once: county agendas and notices, state boards and the Environmental Notice. The sections below break it down by source.

Keelikolani Middle School Middle · grades 6-8
1302 Queen Emma Street, Honolulu · 808.587.4400 · school website · McKinley complex

Myron B. Thompson Academy Elementary-Middle-High · charter · grades K-12
1040 Richards St. Ste. 220, Honolulu · 808.441.8001 · school website · McKinley complex

Royal School Elementary · grades K-5
1519 Queen Emma Street, Honolulu · 808.587.4510 · school website · McKinley complex

Public schools whose grounds fall in this board area, from the State of Hawaiʻi GIS public schools layer, read Nov. 5, 2026: the department's own names, grades, complexes and contact details. Charter schools are marked. Private schools are not listed. Which school serves a particular address is a separate question, answered by the department's attendance areas: look up an address.

Ocean water advisories on Oʻahu

Read live when this page opens: the National Weather Service's alerts for the forecast zone covering Downtown-Chinatown (HIZ033), and the state Department of Health Clean Water Branch's open advisories (brown water, sewage spills, high bacteria) for the island, which the department names by beach or coastline rather than by area. Nothing here is stored or rewritten; each agency's own wording and dates are shown.

Read live from the state Department of Transportation's lane closure map layer when this page opens: approved closures on state highways in and near Downtown-Chinatown (within the area's bounding box, so a closure just outside may appear), from now through the next seven days, in the department's words. County streets are not included. Schedules can change without notice and all work is weather permitting, the department says.

342 incidents reported to the Honolulu Police Department in the 90 days to Nov. 4, 2026 (394 in the 90 days before). Most common: theft/larceny (82), assault (73), drugs/alcohol violations (55). Reports by block and by type.

Reports to police as HPD's open data records them, not findings or arrests; no one is named.

ZIP 96813: 129 reports. Most common: Other (26), Traffic Signal (9), Street Sign (8), Beach/Park (8), Feral Chicken Nuisance (6).

ZIP 96817: 101 reports. Most common: Illegal Dumping for Residential (10), Other (9), Pothole (8), Street Sign (7), Debris/Litter/Dumping (7).

Honolulu 311 reports from the city's open data, Oct. 6, 2026 to Nov. 4, 2026, counted by ZIP code; ZIP codes do not follow board boundaries, so each line describes the ZIP. Counts only: no address, no description, no report number. Request types are the city's own. Categories the city labels “Homeless” count calls made to the city, not people: they say how often neighbors reported something, not how many people are unhoused, and the state's point-in-time count is the source for that. Reports about crime are not counted here.

Regular meeting agenda · Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 P.M. · Keʻelikōlani Middle School Library, 1302 Queen Emma Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, and via Webex held

2. PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS (including discussion on board/community inquiries; 5 minutes each)
   • 2.1. Honolulu Fire Department (HFD)
   • 2.2. Honolulu Police Department (HPD)
   • 2.3. Honolulu Emergency Services (HESD)
   • a. Community Outreach Response and Engagement (CORE) Services Update
3. PUBLIC CONCERNS (2 minutes each regarding issues not listed on the agenda)
4. BOARD BUSINESS
   • 4.1. Board vote on audience question/comment time limit to 1 minute due to time constraints and to accommodate other speakers.
   • 4.2. Board vote to approve draft written summary of the regular meeting video record for Thursday, September 3, 2026.
5. MONTHLY REPORTS (3 minutes on reports with board/community inquiries to follow)
   • 5.1. Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) – Iris Oda
   • 5.2. Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) – Harry Cho
   • 5.3. Hawaiian Electric (HECO) – Ricky Honma
   • 5.4. Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District – Brooke Klejnot
   • 5.5. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation Highways Division (HDOT) – Robert Stellmacher
   • 5.6. Chinatown Business Community Association (CBCA) – Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock
   • 5.7. Neighborhood Citizen Patrol – Kevin Lye
   • 5.8. Oʻahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OʻahuMPO) Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) – Nicole Shintani
6. ELECTED OFFICIALS – (5 minutes each; with board/community inquiries to follow)
   • 6.1. Congressman Ed Case’s Representative
   • 6.2. Governor Josh Green’s Representative – Stephen Downes
   • 6.3. Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s Representative – Ian Santee
   • 6.4. City Council (District 6) – Tyler Dos Santos-Tam
   • 6.5. State Senate (District 13) – Karl Rhoads
   • 6.6. State House (District 25) – Kim Coco Iwamoto
   • 6.7. State House (District 28) – Michael Cov Ratcliffe
7. PRESENTATIONS (10 minutes max per presentation; with board/community inquiries to follow) land use
   • 7.1. Aloha Mortuary Introduction – Charish “Kawehi” Correa, President of Aloha Mortuary
   • 7.2. Honolulu City Lights – City & County of Honolulu and Friends of Honolulu City Lights
   • 7.3. Oʻahu Resilience Hub Learning Community – Sage Murakami, CERENE
   • 7.4. Chinatown Business Directory – Chinese Chamber of Hawaiʻi
   • 7.5. A Downtown Family Christmas – New Life Church – Saturday, December 12, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Smith & Beretania Park. Putting on a free public event with live music, games and free gifts for children – Jacob Chung Jr. land use
   • 7.6. Honolulu Safer Streets Project – Beretania St., South King St., and Young St. Traffic Safety Improvements and Upcoming Community Meeting – Honolulu Complete Streets Team
8. ANNOUNCEMENTS
   • 8.1. The next Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13 regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at Keʻelikōlani Middle School and virtually via WebEx. Rebroadcasts of Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13 meetings are scheduled on ʻŌlelo channel 49 for every third Thursday at 9:00 p.m., as well as 9:00 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month. An archive of past meetings may be found on by searching on <Downtown Board>.

From the agenda the Neighborhood Commission Office sent by email (NCO email list, received Sept. 25, 2026), in its words; routine items (call to order, reports from departments and officials, announcements) are left out, as are email addresses, telephone numbers and links. 1 agenda on file for this board.

What was decided at the Sept. 3, 2026 meeting: 6 motions (adopted 9-0-0, failed for lack of a second, adopted 8-0-1, failed for lack of a second, adopted 8-1-0, as printed 9-0-0). The written summary, item by item.

No file on DPP's public-input map falls inside this board area, as of Nov. 5, 2026.

From the Department of Planning and Permitting's public-input page, read Nov. 5, 2026. A file is placed in this area when DPP's map point falls inside the board's official boundary. The map shows applications open for comment, not every permit. The Ledger has not reviewed the application materials.

From City Council committee agendas the Ledger has read into items (55 so far), in the council's words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area, or names a department file mapped here.

From the State of Hawaiʻi's Environmental Notice (8 issues read), in its words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area.

No state board item read so far prints a tax map key in this board area.

From state board agendas the Ledger has read (4 so far), in the agencies' words. An item appears here only when it prints a tax map key that falls in this board area.

The city issued 522 permits in this area from Jan. 1, 2020 through July 1, 2025, worth $407,689,289 of work as filed; the median permit was $100,000. Of those, 3 were for a new building, 4 carried the solar flag and 0 the accessory dwelling unit flag. Across the whole file: 2,967 permits, $1,048,473,407.

Counted from the city's static permit file (2005 to June 30, 2025), placed by the tax map key each permit carries; 2026 permits are in HNL Build and not in any open file. Counts and totals only: the Ledger does not publish a permit's address, applicant or contractor. How the count is made.

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates by ZIP Code Tabulation Area, read through the Census Reporter API. These are survey estimates; ± is the 90% margin of error. ZIP code areas do not follow board boundaries, so each row describes the ZIP, not the board area. A ZIP is shown when at least a tenth of it lies inside this area.

Oʻahu has one city government, so most decisions that reach Downtown-Chinatown are made for the whole island. Those records have one home each: City Council and committee agendas and every open land-use file.

• Tyler Dos Santos-Tam (Honolulu City Council, District 6)
• Rick Blangiardi (Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu)
• Kim Coco Iwamoto (State Representative, District 25, about 76% of this area)
• Michael “Cov” Ratcliffe (State Representative, District 28, about 23% of this area)
• Karl A. Rhoads (State Senator, District 13, about 66% of this area)
• Sharon Y. Moriwaki (State Senator, District 12, about 34% of this area)

• When is the deadline to apply for a home exemption on Oʻahu, and how much is it?
• When are property taxes due on Oʻahu?
• When can I appeal my property assessment on Oʻahu?
• When are Hawaiʻi's outdoor warning sirens tested?
• What should I do during a brown water advisory?
• Who handles a noise complaint in Hawaiʻi?
• How much do TheBus and Skyline cost?
• How do I testify at a Honolulu City Council committee meeting?
• How do I testify at an Oʻahu neighborhood board meeting?
• How do I fill a vacant seat on an Oʻahu neighborhood board?
• How does bulky item pickup work on Oʻahu?
• How and when do I renew my vehicle registration on Oʻahu?
• Does my car need a safety inspection in Hawaiʻi?
• I shipped my car to Oʻahu. How long do I have to register it?
• Do veterans get a break on vehicle registration fees on Oʻahu?
• How do I renew my driver's license on Oʻahu, and can I fly with the temporary card?
• How long is a driver's license good for once I'm over 72 in Hawaiʻi?
• How do I get the newly redesigned Hawaiʻi driver's license?
• How much emergency water and food should a Hawaiʻi household keep?
• When is hurricane season in Hawaiʻi?