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State planning office, Waikiki stakeholders back shared principles for shoreline work, debate wording on historic agreements
Summary
The House Water and Land Committee heard testimony supporting SCR 159, which urges shared guiding principles for Waikiki shoreline restoration; OPSD urged broader language to cover legacy contracts and court decisions while private‑sector groups stressed including historic agreements and funding for planning.
The House Committee on Water and Land heard testimony April 23 on SCR 159 SD2 HD1, a resolution urging public and private stakeholders to adopt shared guiding principles for planning, financing and undertaking Waikiki shoreline restoration, improvement and maintenance.
Mary Alice Evans, director at the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development (OPSD), told the committee OPSD helped draft the resolution and recommended clarifying amendments that would remove citations to specific 1928, 1929 and 1965 agreements and a named Supreme Court case, replacing them with broader language covering "legacy contractual agreements and more recent judicial interventions." "We participated in drafting, and we're pleased that it has come before you," Evans said, adding the change is meant to make the resolution collaborative and inclusive of current law and practice.
Representatives of Waikiki's private‑sector…
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