Bill Text: HI SB2804 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - The committee on WTL deferred the measure. [SB2804 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2804-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to housing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The
legislature further finds that the lack of affordable housing disproportionally
impacts low-income, elderly residents.
While Hawaii does have many senior apartments, nearly every senior
apartment has a waitlist that typically ranges from three months to four years.
The
legislature believes that relaxing construction restrictions in the
agricultural district will help to encourage the development of affordable
senior housing.
Accordingly,
the purpose of this Act is to allow owners of large lands in the agricultural
district to construct elderly housing on not more than fifteen acres of those
lands.
SECTION 2. Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§205-
Amendments to district boundaries
involving large agricultural lands; elderly housing. (a) Subject to section 205-4, any
person with a property interest in thirty or more acres of contiguous agricultural
lands may petition the land use commission to reclassify up to fifteen acres of
that land to allow for elderly housing or allow elderly housing on up to
fifteen acres as a permissible use.
(b) The petition shall include a
proposal for the elderly housing to be constructed and a financial plan that includes:
(1) Units having different purchase
prices or rent amounts so that individuals paying the higher prices or rents for
certain units subsidize the units having lower prices or rents; and
(2) Requirements that units having lower
prices or rents shall be available only to individuals with incomes of not more
than eighty per cent of the area median income or who are considered asset limited,
income constrained, and employed.
(c) Notwithstanding section 205-4(h),
no amendment of a land use district boundary shall be approved under this
section unless the commission finds upon the clear preponderance of the
evidence that the proposed boundary is reasonable, not violative of part III of
this chapter, and consistent with the policies and criteria established
pursuant to sections 205-16 and 205-17. Six affirmative votes of the commission shall
be necessary for any boundary amendment under this section.
(d) The commission may impose other requirements,
including the receipt of a federal subsidy, federal grant, or other federal
incentive as a requirement for approval of the petition.
(e) For purposes of this section "elderly housing" means a housing complex in which at least eighty per cent of the occupied units shall be occupied by at least one person fifty‑five years of age or older."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
LUC;
Agricultural District; Land Reclassification; Senior Housing; Elderly Housing
Description:
Authorizes
large land owners to petition the Land Use Commission to allow the development
of elderly housing on portions of agricultural lands.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
