Bill Text: HI SB2110 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Affordable Housing; Sixty-Day Review
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-19 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Carroll, Chang, Har, Manahan, Morita, M. Oshiro, Tokioka, Ward excused (8). [SB2110 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2110-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2188
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2110
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2110 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to expedite the construction of affordable housing units by requiring ministerial permits associated with an affordable housing project to be issued by the state or county within forty-five days of acceptance of the permit application for the project.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three state agencies and four private organizations. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one county agency and one private organization. Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committees find that the amount of time it takes to issue ministerial permits subsequent to state and county land use and zoning approvals delays the progress and increases the costs of affordable housing projects. This measure shortens the amount of time within which the State or a county must issue ministerial permits, thereby expediting the construction of affordable housing.
Your Committees have heard the concern that a forty-five-day limit may rush the permit review and approval process by counties, which may lead to health and safety risks. Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Extending the time limit to issue ministerial permits to sixty days commencing upon the receipt by the appropriate state or county agency of a permit application deemed to be complete by the receiving state or county agency; and
(2) Removing the provisions that limit the maximum number of comprehensive reviews of ministerial permits that a state or county agency may perform to two reviews per year.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2110, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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