Bill Text: HI HB2419 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Use Commission; County General Plan; Reclassification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2419 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2419-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  475-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2419

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2419 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND USE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the land use classification process when adopting amendments to a county general plan relating to parcels of land greater than 15 acres.

 

     The Building Industry Association of Hawaii, the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The State Land Use Commission, Office of Planning, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and four individuals opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Applying the facilitated land use classification process to parcels of land that are 15 acres or less; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2419, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2419, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair