Beachfront property owners who have helped themselves to more land will have the fact added on their LIM reports.
The decision by the Tauranga City Council monitoring committee is part of a package arranged to remove a coastal strip problem that has been in existence for decades in some cases.

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About 100 property owners along the coastal strip have illegally extended their properties by growing the grassed area in front of the building.
The additions are by 7-9 metres in some cases.
One argument used by property owners is that a ‘buffer zone' is required to provide a firebreak from the native vegetation being encouraged along the fore dune in the Conservation Reserve.
The council decided to act on the issue in 2003, but nothing much happened. In 2006 there was another decision to proceed, but council officers encountered resistance during the 2007 and 2008 planting season.
Last year a block of Karewa Parade properties was targeted, because the dune system in that area is in the worst condition.
Karewa Parade property owners banded together to form a vocal and defiant opposition to their encroachments being removed, says chief executive Stephen Town in his report to the committee.
The new approach is for council staff to replant encroachments in natives with ratepayers paying for the plants. Property owners will be required to remove illegal structures at their own expense.
Properties with encroachments will have the information added to their Land Information Memorandum report, so the encroachment is noted when the property comes up for sale.
The plan is for about 20 encroaching properties to be replanted each year.