Bill Text: HI SB673 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Zoning; Performance Standards

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB673 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB673-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 447

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 673

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 673 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ZONING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify county restrictions on group living facilities.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from four individuals.  Testimony in opposition was received from one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     This measure adds temporal restrictions on commercial deliveries, and ambient noise and pollutant emission standards at lot boundaries to the county requirements that must be satisfied in order for group living facilities to operate.

 

Your Committees find that many residents, including the elderly, mentally ill, and disabled, for a variety of reasons and circumstances may benefit from residing in group living facilities that provide deinstitutionalized, residential settings that are more conducive to their care, health and autonomy, and quality of life.  However, as the number of group living facilities increases in traditional residential areas, the potential negative impacts that they may unintentionally cause due to increases in care provider and visitor traffic, commercial deliveries, noise, and other impacts resulting from the facilities may affect their surrounding neighbors, thereby reducing the latter's quality of life and quiet, peaceful enjoyment of residential living.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 673 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Human Services,

 

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair