STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2132

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2355

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2355 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to utilize a public-private partnership to develop additional incarceration space on state land at Halawa Correctional Facility in exchange for a long-term lease to develop the transit-oriented development zone near Oahu Community Correctional Center.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety.

 

     Your Committees find that the inmate population at Halawa Correctional Facility has reached its maximum capacity and that there needs to be additional incarceration space developed at Halawa Correctional Facility to alleviate overcrowding, eliminate the transfer of Hawaii inmates to jurisdictions outside of the State, and reduce the long-term costs of incarcerating people in this State.

 

     Your Committees also find that a portion of the planned route of the mass transit rail system is on Dillingham Boulevard across from Oahu Community Correctional Center and includes a fixed guideway station nearby in Kalihi.  Development of a Kalihi station transit-oriented development zone would enable the residents of Kalihi and the users of the mass transit rail system to enjoy better services and amenities as well as an improved quality of life.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2355 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair