09/21/22 – NO GOOD OPTIONS FOR HOMEOWNERS & THE PUBLIC ON O'AHU'S NORTH SHORE

Posted on Sep 22, 2022 in News Releases, OCCL, slider DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON For Immediate Release:  September 21, 2022 NO GOOD OPTIONS FOR HOMEOWNERS & THE PUBLIC ON O‘AHU’S NORTH SHORE  Office of Conservation & Coastal Lands Seeking Solutions to Ongoing Crisis  To view video please click on photo or view at this link: https://vimeo.com/752337208 (HONOLULU) – The plight of public beaches and twenty homes on dunes above, in the Paumalu ahupua‘a on the north shore of O‘ahu, has consumed Michael Cain and his staff. This year, after seventeen years with DLNR, Cain was appointed administrator of the DLNR Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands (OCCL). He and his team continue to grapple with what to do about coastal homes with expired, temporary emergency State permits to “shore” up the land under their foundations to stop the forces of erosion from toppling them onto the beach and into the ocean. All the homes at Paumalu border public beaches within a State Conservation District. “Earlier this month, utilizing a drone, we surveyed the area, and it revealed unpermitted shoreline hardening work continuing at a number of properties, in violation of Conservation District rules,” Cain explained. “This…
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