HONOLULU -- State lawmakers are considering a temporary solution to the continuing problem of homeless campers living in some of Hawaii's most popular parks including Waikiki's Kapiolani Park.

They want the state to designate land for homeless safe zones.

The safe zones would be where homeless could pitch their tents at night with security and bathroom facilities.

But the homeless would have to pack up and leave each morning.

Waikiki Rep. Tom Brower introduced the idea of homeless safe zones.

And so far, Brower's resolution has been embraced by his fellow House members.

"We need to have areas that are designated a homeless safe zone. That way we can get a handle on what is going on. We can work on security and we can work on bathroom facilities and we also can work on services for the homeless," said Brower.

Joanne Adams, of the Waikiki Neighborhood Board, said the board supports the idea of homeless safe zones.

"What we have to do is make it uncomfortable for the homeless to stay at Waikiki beach and in other parks. Those areas are needed for the use of taxpayers," said Adams.

The State Department of Land and Natural Resources which is charged in Brower's resolution with finding state land for the homeless zones opposes the idea.

The DLNR said setting up homeless zones would cost money which the state doesn't have now.

Some long term homeless campers in Waikiki like the idea of homeless safe zones.

Danelle Sanchez has been living in a tent with her boyfriend beside Waikiki Beach for the last seven months.

"Just as long as we have an area where we can set up a tent at night time and the zones offer access to a bathroom, that's perfect," said Sanchez.

But others are more leery about the proposed zones.

"I just don't believe that homeless people in Waikiki would want to leave and go to these places because they would be like concentration camps. You know, nobody is going to corral me and make me go some place I don't want to be," said Marc Slade, who said he was once homeless.

Some critics of homeless zones worry they could become centers of drug dealing and other illegal activities.