Bill Text: HI SB2927 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Community Development Authority; State-wide Planning; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-03 - (H) Recommitted to Conference committee as amended in CD 2 with none voting no and Representative(s) Nishimoto excused. [SB2927 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2927-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2371
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2927
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2927 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLANNING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Rename the Hawaii Community Development Authority as the Hawaii Community Planning Authority;
(2) Allow the Authority to create transit-oriented development zones;
(3) Authorize the Authority to create business improvement districts and assess a special assessment to fund the improvements within the district; and
(4) Authorize the Authority to act as a density rights bank.
Prior to the hearing, your Committee posted a proposed S.D. 1 of this measure that focused on the counties. The proposed S.D. 1 allows the counties to create county transit-oriented development programs, establish planning districts, and create a process for developers to apply for residential and commercial exceptional planning projects.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation and Hawaii Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust. Your Committee received comments on the proposed S.D. 1 from the County of Kauai Planning Department and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.
Your Committee finds that the State needs to streamline its efforts and implement ideas that would result in reasonable, rational, and equitable land use planning. Existing laws require unnecessary and often times burdensome regulations that lengthen the timing process of worthy development projects. This measure would provide for a more timely and efficient process for the development of Hawaii's lands.
Upon further consideration and cooperation with interested stakeholders, your Committee has amended the proposed S.D. 1 by, among other things:
(1) Including a findings and purpose section;
(2) Amending the definition of "exceptional planning project" to give flexibility to each county;
(3) Reducing the number of days the county planning agency can extend the deadline of posting their final action to ten days;
(4) Deleting language relating to unlicensed contractors and subcontractors;
(5) Including state and county incentives for projects;
(6) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2927, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2927, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,
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____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair |
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