Bill Text: HI SB2350 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ohana Dwellings; Housing; Agricultural Lands

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-30 - (H) The committee(s) on WLO recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2350 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2350-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1184-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2350

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2350, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the building of ohana dwellings on lands within an agricultural district in a county with a population of 500,000 or less, as permitted under a special permit.

 

     Hawaii Farmers Union United, Hawaii Association of REALTORS, and Hawaii Sustainable Community Alliance testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and a member of the County Council of the County of Maui testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Agriculture, Department of the Attorney General, and a member of the Hawaii County Council provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Housing, upon referral and hearing of this measure, further examine the issue of whether or not ohana dwellings are currently permissible in the various counties.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 20, 2020, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2350, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2350, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Housing.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair