TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 7 - 9 PM, KALAMA BEACH PARK (BEOTTCHER ESTATE HOUSE)
Here's your chance to tell the Kailua Neighborhood Board Parks Committee which access ways along Kailua Beach should be converted to public easements, either through negotiations with the homeowners on those lanes, or condemnation by the City Council. Speak now or forever hold your peace!
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 6 - 8 PM, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WAIKIKI
The State Dept. of Land and Natural Resources will be holding public hearings on proposed changes that could result in the loss of free parking at Ala Wai Harbor. For more info, see the links and articles below about the Common Ground Hawaii rally last weekend.
NATIONAL BEACH ACCESS STORY
If you get the Honolulu Advertiser, you may have seen the Wall Street Journal article about public rights of way battles going on all over the country. If you missed it, here's an excerpt below.
"From the beaches of Hawaii and California to beaches in Florida and Texas, regulators and property owners are entering nasty property fights over erosion issues. WSJ's Kris Hudson reports..."
WHOSE BEACH IS THIS ANYWAY?
By Kris Hudson
Dec. 12, 2007 SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas -- When Brooks Porter bought two vacation homes on the shore of this seaside village 25 years ago, roughly 200 feet of beach separated the properties from the Gulf of Mexico. Now, the sea laps beneath Mr. Porter's houses and those of his neighbors, sucking away the sand beneath them and gnawing on the now-exposed wooden pilings that support them.
Yet Mr. Porter and his neighbors aren't railing at Mother Nature. Rather, they are angry with the state of Texas, which notified the homeowners in 1999 that, due to the erosion, their houses were in the public right of way on the beach and the state could eventually require the homes' removal or demolition.
In the ensuing months, 14 houses were moved off the beach, and nine others were bought by the village and demolished. Today, only 14 remain on the beach...
To read the rest, please go to:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119741959764822149.html
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