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I am a real estate broker, and was trying to help the people of Maui with housing, only to be met by bullies forcing me to leave.
Literally, a client asked me to look at a vacant lot in Kahana to add a modular home so Lahaina could house a displaced family.
When showing the prospective buyer (via FaceTime), we saw the ocean nearby, so the prospect asked me to show him the beach.
I drove around the block and parked legally on the street in front of the beach park, a beautiful little cove. As soon as I approached the beach, squatters on the beach approached me and started yelling profanities and insults at me.
They told me that I cannot set foot off the public road onto the public beach which they claimed was theirs. I had just had spinal surgery, and feared for my safety. I turned around and walked back to my car, accompanied by one of the bullies, yelling at me inches from my face until I sat down in my car and closed the door.
These squatters are taking control of beaches, many on the west side. They are also overtaking Kahului Harbor. There is no place to relieve themselves, no trash control, and certainly no civil control.
I beg our mayor and council to clean up our beaches and return them to the tax-paying citizenry.
Gary J. Mooers
Puunene