Bill Text: HI HCR182 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-20 - (H) Referred to HSG, FIN, referral sheet 50 [HCR182 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR182-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	182
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CREATE A REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN FOR KUKUI GARDENS AND MAYOR WRIGHT HOMES.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are large affordable housing complexes located in Palama in the City and County of Honolulu; and

 

WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens is a low-rise complex comprised of eight hundred fifty-seven affordable units, and it houses approximately two thousand five hundred residents; and

 

WHEREAS, Mayor Wright Homes is a low-rise complex comprised of three hundred sixty-three units that have continuously suffered from maintenance problems; and

 

WHEREAS, Hawaii is in need of more affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income households; and

 

WHEREAS, homelessness and a shortage of affordable housing continue to be two of the State's most significant and challenging social problems; and

 

WHEREAS, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority indicates that the waiting list for public housing is approximately seven thousand people; and

 

WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are located in an area zoned by the City and County of Honolulu as an A-2 medium-density apartment district with regulated building heights of one hundred fifty feet; and

 

WHEREAS, there is a planned transit stop at the nearby junction of Dillingham Boulevard and Liliha Street; and

 

WHEREAS, lower income families are the most likely to use public mass transit; and

 

WHEREAS, the Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes properties are not being used to their highest and best use; and

 

WHEREAS, the State owns half of Kukui Gardens, all of Mayor Wright Homes, and a strip of land located on Liliha Street between the two complexes; now, therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, the Senate concurring, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to create a master plan, in collaboration with Kukui EAH/DGI Associates, L.P., to redevelop Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes, including the state-owned strip of land located on Liliha Street, to include mixed-use commercial and residential market rate housing as well as low- to moderate-income housing; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to submit a report of their findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan