\u201cWhen somebody cuts off an access, you gotta jump on it,\u201d warns Kaua`i County Council member Tim Bynum.<\/p>\n
In 2007, the county lost a federal lawsuit over what it had thought was a public road through a 174-acre property called Tara Plantation, which was then owned by movie producer Peter Guber\u2019s Mandalay Properties Hawai`i, LLC.<\/p>\n
Because a previous landowner erected a gate in 1958 and the county failed to claim the road by 1978, it became a private road through adverse possession, the court found.<\/p>\n
In December 2012, the county council passed a resolution Bynum introduced that called on the county\u2019s Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Fund Commission to pursue gaining at least a public footpath to the bay.<\/p>\n
Little has happened since the commission\u2019s first meeting of 2013, where Max Graham, an attorney representing current landowner Papa`a Bay Ranch, said a preliminary appraisal found that an easement through the property would cost between $5 million and $9 million. He also noted that the bay is accessible from Moloa`a to the north and Aliomanu from the south.<\/p>\n
Some commission members \u201cwere taken aback\u201d by Graham\u2019s estimate and more controversial matters have since kept the commission busy, Bynum says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m meeting with the county attorney to keep that process moving forward. … It\u2019s in process. These things take time,\u201d he says, adding that he doesn\u2019t believe the access will cost anything near Grahams\u2019 estimate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s ag land. It\u2019s not urban,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
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