Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t getting any love — let alone like — from his Hawaiian neighbors, who are enraged about a wall he’s building around his $100 million oceanfront sanctuary.
The 32-year-old billionaire recently began construction on a 6-foot-high barrier around his 700-acre retreat on Kauai’s North Shore, sparking fury from locals who say the wall is an eyesore.
“The feeling of it is really oppressive. It’s immense,” Kauai resident Gy Hall told West Hawaii Today.
“It’s really sad that somebody would come in, and buy a huge piece of land and the first thing they do is cut off this view that’s been available and appreciative by the community here for years,” Hall said.
The notoriously private Facebook boss purchased the scenic coastline property — which includes a massive chunk of white-sand Pila’a Beach — in September 2014.
“(The crew) put some boards up, so you can see the future projection of the wall and what it will cut off,” Hall told the local news outlet. “It’s quite dramatic because you can see all the pasture land and ocean underneath the boards.”
The wall Zuckerberg is building is believed to be made from locally sourced materials, but neighbors are more concerned about the blot it puts on the landscape.
Nearby Kilauea resident Donna Mcmillen called the wall a “monstrosity.”
“I’m super unhappy about that. I know that land belongs to Zuckerberg. Money is no option for him. I’m 5 foot 8 and when I’m walking, I see nothing but wall,” Mcmillen said, according to West Hawaii Today.
“It just doesn’t fit in with the natural beauty that we have here. There are people on the island who money can pay for anything. These kind of things that they do take away what Kauai is all about,” she said.
One local, Shosana Chantara, said she’s concerned the wall is going to obstruct the ocean breeze.
“You take a solid wall that’s 10 or more feet above the road level, the breeze can’t go through,” Chantara told the newspaper.
Neighbors said they have desperately been trying to contact Zuckerberg, to no avail.
“There’s a total disconnect from what the community is concerned about and what he wants,” Hall added.
A spokesperson for Zuckerberg’s Kauai project told The Post in a statement, “Rock walls like this one being built along the roadway are routinely used as sound barriers to reduce highway and road noise, and that is its primary purpose.”
“The sound barrier follows all regulated rules and regulations by the county and our entire team remains committed to ensuring that any development respects the local landscape and environment and is considerate of neighbors,” the statement read.
It’s not the first time Zuckerberg has drawn the ire of his neighbors.
In 2014, Zuckerberg upset locals who complained about the renovation construction on his San Francisco home.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.