Bill Text: HI HB363 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Affordable Housing; Fees; Incentives

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB363 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB363-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 942

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 363

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 363, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the counties to:

 

     (1)  Offer incentives for the development of affordable housing, including density bonuses, height waivers, cluster zoning, greater design flexibility, waiving water and sewer connection fees, priority infrastructure financing, and site flexibility; and

 

     (2)  Provide flexibility in public facility requirements for rental housing projects with units for tenants at or below one hundred per cent of median income levels, and raising from twenty to forty per cent, the units set aside for tenants with incomes eighty per cent or below the area median family income.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by four government agencies and three private organizations.  Comments were submitted by one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is one of many alternatives being considered that would provide additional incentives for the development of affordable housing.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the City and County of Honolulu's mass transit project offers exceptional opportunities for the development of affordable housing.  To that end, your Committee previously heard and approved S.B. No. 442, S.D.1, which in part established a Commission on Transit Oriented Development, to facilitate the development of affordable housing.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure accordingly, by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a Commission on Transit Oriented Development to facilitate affordable housing in transit oriented developments by better coordinating transportation and housing planning and programs;

 

     (2)  Authorizing the counties, through their incentives for affordable housing, to establish priorities for the development of affordable housing in transit oriented developments; and

 

     (3)  Amending the purpose section to reflect these changes.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 363, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 363, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair