Bill Text: HI SB735 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Affordable Housing; Receiving Zones

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB735 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB735-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 314

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 735

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 735 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the counties to identify and designate affordable housing receiving zones to facilitate the development of affordable housing.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two state agencies and three private organizations.  Testimony in opposition was submitted by one county agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure is one of many under consideration by the Legislature in response to severe shortages of affordable housing in Hawaii.  Your Committees are concerned that a long-term economic crisis will further worsen what is already a challenging housing market for Hawaii residents.

 

     Your Committees further find that the City and County of Honolulu's mass transit project offers exceptional opportunities for the development of affordable housing.  Your Committees have heard and approved a wide range of proposed affordable housing initiatives in transit oriented development and encourage further legislative discussions on the proposal in this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding references to transit oriented development throughout;

 

     (2)  Added definitions for "commission on transit oriented development", proposed to be established pursuant to section 6 of S.B. No. 442, and "transit oriented development";

 

     (3)  Requiring that in the designation of affordable housing receiving zones, priority shall be given to areas within proximity to new or existing transit facilities;

 

     (4)  Deleting both procurement exemptions and waiver state wage requirement from local incentives, waivers, and regulatory flexibility;

 

     (5)  Adding a provision for the Revisor of Statutes to reference the appropriate section of the Hawaii Revised Statutes that corresponds to the codified provisions of S.B. No. 442, if enacted; and

 

     (6)  Making technical amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 735, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 735, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair