On Oahu’s North Shore, big fines are proposed for illegal erosion control measures 

When you try and control the shoreline, Mother Nature takes over. These houses are toast over time.

I grew up in Kailua in the 60's, 70's and 80's and I remember Kailua Beach, Lanikai and Bellows Beach in the R & R section. There used to be plenty of sand at Kailua and Lanikai Beach. The last time I went to Lanikai, Kailua Beach and the R & R beach area, I was appalled at the amount of erosion of sand from the area, so the North Shore erosion isn't surprising. Kailua, Lanikai and Waimanalo don't have huge winter waves, but it is still eroding away. I know people have mentioned Lanikai had some residents changing their properties, but the R & R beach erosion is on the other side of the point, which considering it before the point is still eroding away. I sort of doubt that attempting to stop the North Shore erosion is feasible without either destroying the wave action in that area or impacting other parts.

You knowingly bought property on the beach of an area are known for some of the largest waves in the world ....sounds like a personal problem

Haole you shouldn't have bought the house on sinking sand. It's in the bible.

Fines will be so big people will loose their homes to the gov😢😮

Building houses on sand deposited by the ocean means it is just a matter of time before it takes away what it once created. Shifting sands of time.

Money for nothin', and your chicks for free, caught up with you.

Plastic sand bags isn’t the answer

So a story about a haole that knowingly bought a beach front estate in 2021 and doesn’t live there but profits from beachside vacation rental. Charge the kooks.

What happened to the law in hawaii....that no one or business is permitted to build or own on land 100 feet above the Highest waterline and or tide?

Hey Joe Aloha 💕

Fine em and send Richard BISSEN the bill

rich people problem.... you gambled... you lost. sorry.

The reason why the sand is not there is directly related to the houses being there. Those areas were sand dunes and were never meant to have homes built on them. The natural flow of the dunes have been permanently altered due to greed and the need to have "beach front property." Nature will find a way to balance itself out and in due time all of those homes will be gone. We are just witnessing the beginning of the process.

why would you say you can’t protect your house ? ridiculous

Did they take sand from that area to fix Waikiki beaches? Hmm there’s a song about building on the sand 😮

How about homes where Obama is doing this?

Beachside vacation rental = u may end up in ocean 🤪

Rich people problems.

How about Obummers house?? He is exempt obviously 🙄 ???

OC&CL should protect these land from erosion if they don’t want the land owner protecting their property 🤦🏽‍♂️

Let the waves take um. No locals own houses there anyways

Life is what you make it.

The oceans will continue to rise and those people will all eventually lose their homes. But typical of a govt agency to slap a ridiculous amount of fine on a guy trying to save his house. Doubt they would have done that to a local in Makaha.

The government is constantly trying to thwart simple solutions to simple problems.

Life is what you make it.