An outcry over plans to fence off a trail to Larsen’s Beach is causing Kauai residents to revisit two longstanding issues: Should concerns about liability restrict access; and is the county properly recording public easements?
The controversy arose over cattle rancher Bruce Laymon’s plans to install a fence on northeast Kauai coastal land that he leases from the Waioli Corp., a kamaaina landowner whose holdings include the historic Waioli Mission House and Grove Farm Homestead Museum.
The fence would block the widest and easiest of two trails that lead down to the long, relatively secluded beach. Laymon maintains the more popular trail is not the easement that Waioli Corp. deeded over to the county. Instead, the public access runs through an outcropping of rocks along a steeper, rougher trail that is less favored by beach-goers.
But during a site visit last Friday, concerned citizens said they were stunned to hear surveyor Alan Hironaka claim there’s no public access to Larsen’s Beach at all...
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Then we have Andy Parx's "got windmills?" blog post, which also goes into the history and politics behind the Larsen Beach access issue.
Check out Andy's piece, The Road More Traveled (Mon., Oct. 26) here.
So has the Honolulu Advertiser or Star-Bulletin been on top of this story? I could be wrong, but I don't think so. More and more we're seeing independent news sources and bloggers picking up the slack while TV news and the dailies cut back on actual reporting, and run more Mainland-generated content.
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