Bill Text: HI SB751 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Use; Urban Growth Commission; Density; Design; Standards; Office of Planning

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Re-Referred to EGH/WTL/WAM. [SB751 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB751-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 435

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 751

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 751 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO URBAN GROWTH COMMISSION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish an Urban Growth Commission within the Land Use Commission to set standards necessary to mitigate the adverse impact of development on communities within urban growth boundaries.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Planning and Permitting.

 

     Your Committees find that there is a need to establish, at the state level, uniform standards for the proper management of urban growth.  This measure will ensure that any adverse impacts of development within urban areas are limited to the greatest extent possible.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the agency that the Urban Growth Commission is placed in for administrative purposes to the Office of Planning.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 751, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 751, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Water and Land,

 

____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair