Land Board takes hard line on oceanfront properties in Hawaii
The seven-member board that oversees the state Department of Land and Natural Resources signaled Friday that it might pull its support for a major $10 million beach nourishment project on Maui’s Kaanapali Beach.
The project has attracted pushback from community members concerned about the environmental impacts of mining large amounts of sand from offshore to counter the erosion erasing the beach and threatening high-end resorts.
While the project would enlarge the public beach, it’s been criticized as largely benefiting the oceanfront hotels and condos in the Kaanapali Beach Resort and encouraging them to stay put rather than start looking at options for retreating from the shoreline.
