The population increase is also expected to damage Lamu's status as a world heritage site.
Petersburg, in June 2012, Kenya's LAPSSET project and its effects on Lamu was discussed.
This has influenced key flagship projects including Lamu Port and the Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor.
With God's help the authorities managed to arrest my son near the Somali-Kenya border at Lamu.
Tebbutt was abducted from a safari lodge in the popular Kenyan tourist town of Lamu in September.
"Getting information about the port project is incredibly difficult, " states Abubakar El-Amudy, chairperson of the Save Lamu coalition.
Andrew McGhie, a Lamu-based estate agent, says that Kenya's coast tugs at people's heart strings, not just their wallets.
Meanwhile, Save Lamu's momentum is gathering strength and their court case is pending.
Save Lamu , a coalition of local civil society organizations, is taking the government to court over the port project.
Save Lamu maintains that it is not against the port, but against the way it feels the government is strong-arming the community into submission.
"Lamu attracts a fairly adventurous romantic type person who wants to come to somewhere that is completely different to their everyday lives, " he says.
"We have been the stewards of this land and coastline for centuries, " says Mohammed Baddi, member of the Save Lamu coalition and a legal petitioner.
Their livelihoods and cultural existence are at stake with the government's plan to build a mega port and transport corridor linking Lamu to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Coastal hotspots such as Mombasa, Malindi and Lamu occupied the second spot in The Wealth Report 2012, recording a 20% price growth in luxury residential properties.
This, together with news of oil being discovered in Turkana in the north-west and the possible gas deposits off the Lamu coast gives Vision 2030 much-needed impetus.
Correspondents say there are also worries about the impact of the proposed pipeline on Lamu, which is one of East Africa's most beautiful and relatively unspoiled environments.
The golden sands and crystal blue waters of Kenya's Lamu Archipelago are straight out of the pages of a glossy travel magazine, the stuff of wealthy holidaymakers' dreams.
Lamu, a tiny island located off Kenya's north coast, is the second home for many tycoons, attracting local and international investors who flock in to get a unique combination of sun and culture.
The dispute left South Sudan looking for alternative ways to transport its crude, including a possible route from Jonglei state through Ethiopia to the Port of Djibouti and a second one to the Kenyan port of Lamu.
South Sudan, for years the largest oil producer in the region and locked in an oil dispute with Sudan, now wants to send crude out through Kenya on a pipeline to a proposed new port in Lamu (see map).
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