Bill Text: HI HB309 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Affordable Housing; Rental Units; Honolulu Urban Core

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB309 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB309-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  598

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 309

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 309, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of affordable rental housing units by exempting high-rise multifamily projects in the urban core of Honolulu from height restrictions; provided that 20 percent of the units on each floor above the third floor are affordable rental housing units.

 

     The General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Housing Alliance, and Group Builders, Inc. submitted testimony in support of this bill.  The Outdoor Circle and Historic Hawaii Foundation testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 309, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair