Bill Text: HI HCR36 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-15 - Referred to HMS/EGH/WAM. [HCR36 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR36-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CREATE A REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN and more housing units FOR KUKUI GARDENS AND MAYOR WRIGHT HOMES.
WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are low-rise affordable housing complexes located in the Palama area of the City and County of Honolulu; and
WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens is a forty-year-old low income housing complex comprised of three hundred eighty-nine units; and
WHEREAS, Kukui EAH/DGI Associates, L.P. is the State’s lessee and building owner/property manager for Kukui Gardens Makai and CP II Kukui Gardens, LLC is the owner of Kukui Gardens of Kukui Gardens Mauka; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Wright Homes is 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 persistent and challenging social problems; and
WHEREAS, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority reports that as of January 4, 2013, there were 11,603 families on the waiting list for federal public housing and 8,173 families on the waiting list for state public housing; 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, a rail transit stop is planned near this area on Dillingham Boulevard; and
WHEREAS, lower income families are among those most likely to use public mass transit; and
WHEREAS, the Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes properties are not being utilized to their highest and best use; and
WHEREAS, the State owns all of Kukui Gardens, all of Mayor Wright Homes, and a strip of land located on Liliha Street between the two complexes; and
WHEREAS, the State would benefit from a master plan for housing in this highly urbanized area; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the Senate concurring, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to create a master plan to redevelop and create more affordable housing units for Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes, while also utilizing 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 Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to consult with Kukui EAH/DGI Associates, L.P. (the State’s lessee and building owner/property manager for Kukui Gardens Makai)and CP II Kukui Gardens, LLC (owner of Kukui Gardens Mauka) to be included in the master planning effort; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, is requested to submit a report, including findings and recommendations, on the master plan to redevelop and create more affordable housing units for Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2014; 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.
Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan
