Bill Text: HI HB738 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Counties; Land Use; Accessory Dwelling Units

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - The committees on WAL recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evans, Lowen, Coffman, Cullen, Hanohano, Fale, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Kawakami, C. Lee. [HB738 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB738-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  288

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 738

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 738 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist residents in obtaining affordable housing by requiring the counties to adopt reasonable standards to allow the construction of a single-family dwelling unit and an accessory dwelling unit on any lot on which a residential dwelling unit is permitted.

 

     The Hawaii Association of REALTORS and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Office of Planning supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu and three concerned individuals opposed this measure. 

 

     Your Committee notes that the bill allows the construction of a single-family dwelling unit and an accessory dwelling unit on a single lot on which a residential dwelling unit is permitted.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Excluding the construction of accessory dwelling units on state agricultural lands in counties with a population of 500,000 or fewer persons; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 738, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 738, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair