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I am quoting here from the Big Island Chronicle Blog "The complaint for injunctive relief filed by Shipman asserts that under Keaau Plaza’s lease terms, no sublease can occur without Shipman’s prior written consent, and that immoral or offensive uses are prohibited." It seems to me that "immoral or offensive uses" is awfully vague language without a real legal definition. By some lights every business in that plaza could be deemed "immoral or offensive." My grandmother would have been shocked by all of them.

Claiming this plaza is across the street from the school is a real stretch, it is down the street from the school and across from the community center. Not that it really matters in such a small town, everybody would know about it wherever it was. I don't see how children are even going to know what business a store with totally opaque windows named "private moments" is in unless some adults tell them. It isn't as if they are going to be putting magazine racks full of porn out on the sidewalk. The owner has done everything possible to minimize the visual impact of his business out of respect for the community, and them some people use that against them to argue they must be doing something wrong if they are covering the windows.

I sure wish the people who come out in droves on issues like this would be as activist about things that really negatively impact children: hunger, poverty, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse are far bigger problems than a discrete adults only store.

Carol