Recreational off-road vehicles have damaged much of the terrain at Kaena Point.
The State is looking for ways to better manage the area and has turned to an advisory group.
More than a hundred people turned out to a meeting tonight in Haleiwa to get an update on the plans.
The group presented three different options.
"There should be no off-roaders at Kaena Point. It's a violation of the rules," said Bill Aila, Kaena Point Advisory Group Chair
But decades of vehicles illegally off-roading at Kaena Point have taken a major toll.
"When it rains and they go down there drive their cars through mud, make huge holes and drive over sand dunes. We've noticed that quite a few of the offroaders had military stickers on them," said Aila.
The Kaena Point Advisory Group was formed by the State DLNR last year to come up with recommendations for a management plan for the area which is also popular among hikers, campers, sightseers and fishermen.
The group presented three options for a designated road to the North Shore Neighborhood Board Tuesday night.
Here are the options: the first is the "upper road" option -- which has the least amount of vehicular access to the shoreline.
The second "loop" option includes the upper road plus "some" access to the shoreline.
And the third "network" option has the most access to the beach.
"One of the concerns is the more vehicular access the more erosion and more potential damaging activities that can go on," said Aila.
The plans do not call for creating a paved road. Instead they would use boulders or pilings to designate a road.
"The designated road will make it enforceable. The fact there is no well defined designated road in the area is why when they write citation the judges will normally throw them out," said Aila.
Although more than a hundred people showed up to Tuesday night's meeting, only a handful testified.
"We need to preserve it," said Bruce Marnie of Wahiawa.
"I want it to remain the way it is enforce the rules," said Ollie Lunasco of Waialua.
The group plans to take the testimony from tonight's meeting and from online responses, and will make a recommendation to the DLNR in September, which will in turn make a recommendation to the Board of Land and Natural Resources for action sometime in the late fall.
