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Remove Images Spin Cycle LURF Fights For the Big Guys by Jacob Shafer March 25, 2010 Line in the sand… "LURF generally supports the intent and purpose of [the bill] however we must respectfully oppose the provisions which requires [sic] that private property owners maintain public areas…" - From testimony provided March 12 to the state Senate by the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii (LURF) regarding HB1808, a bill that would require "landowners in shoreline access areas to ensure that public transit beach corridors are passable and free from human-induced, enhanced, or unmaintained vegetation…" LURF is a private "research and trade association" whose members include, among others, Alexander & Baldwin, Castle & Cooke, Dowling Co., Maui Land & Pineapple and Hawaiian Electric Company