“As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.” ~ Robert Shea

1. MAUI COUNTY – COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
THE ENVIRONMENT - POLITICAL CHALLENGES
COMPETING PRIORITIES AND CONFLICTING INTERESTS
EROSION DEVOURING MISSION PROPERTY
By Chris Sugidono. The Maui News
December 20, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017
Members of the 111-year-old Mantokuji Soto Zen Mission of Paia are hoping to
save their temple building and cemetery from rapidly increasing erosion that
has swept out into the shore break close to a hundred gravestones and claimed
several acres of land over the years.
“The shoreline has been a threat, but just in the last three years the ocean has
been really bad,” temple member Cathy Murayama said Tuesday. “It’s always
slowly creeping up on us, but now we can see it 20 yards away from the
kitchen, and maybe not even that.
“It’s like at our back door, and more than ever we feel the urgency to do
something.”
The temple established in 1906 is located across from the Paia Community
Center and holds more than 600 grave markers in its cemetery along the coast
of Mantokuji Bay. Climate change coupled with stronger surf has claimed at
least 3 to 4 acres of the property.
Temple and community members have recovered gravestones along the
shoreline and piled them up in the middle of the cemetery.
Paia Mantokuji is the only Soto Zen Buddhist temple on Maui. Soto is the
leading school of the sect and emphasizes meditation with no objects, anchors
or content, according to “Soto Zen in Medieval Japan” by William Bodiford.

2. BEACH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR MAUI
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December 1997, accessed December 21, 2017
<https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/occl/fles/2013/08/BeachManagementPlanMaui.pdf>
EROSION HOTSPOTS
East End of Paia Bay
EROSION WATCH SPOTS
MATOKUJI BAY
LOST BEACHES
Portions of Kuau Bay
Portions of Tavares Bay
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MĀNOA
SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SOEST)
PAIA MANTOKUJI
Mantokuji Bay, (transects 120 – 131), has experienced moderate to high
erosion over time with an average AEHR of -1.7 ft/yr.
Mantokuji Bay with limited sediment supply has experienced the largest
decrease in average beach width between 1960 and 2002 of 28%.
Source: The Hawaii Shoreline Study – Maui / Baldwin Park. Hawaii Coastal Erosion
Website. Accessed December 21, 2017 http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/erosion/maui/
[CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE]
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3. COMPARE WITH
BEACH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR MAUI
Second Edition, June 2008, accessed December 21, 2017
MAUI COUNTY, DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
https://www.mauicounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/10172
FOCUS AREAS – NORTH KAANAPALI – KAANAPALI
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MĀNOA
SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SOEST)
NORTH KAANAPALI
Overall, the area has experienced light erosion since 1912 with an average
AEHR of -0.3 ft/yr.
KAANAPALI
As a whole, the study area has experienced moderate erosion since 1912
with an AEHR of -0.6 ft/yr.
Source: The Hawaii Shoreline Study – Maui. Hawaii Coastal Erosion Website. Accessed
December 21, 2017 http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/erosion/maui/
[CLICK ON NORTH KAANAPALI AND KAANAPALI and CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE]
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COMPETING PRIORITIES – CONFLICTING INTERESTS - MIKE WHITE
➢ Chairman of the Maui County Council
➢ Elected to serve the Makawao-Haiku-Paia residency area
➢ General manager, Kaanapali Beach Hotel 1985 to Present