Bill Text: HI SCR136 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: State Planning Act; State Housing Functional Plan

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-14 - Re-referred to FIN, referral sheet 50 [SCR136 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-SCR136-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.C.R. NO.

136

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING AN UPDATE OF THE STATE HOUSING FUNCTIONAL PLAN.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, the Hawaii State Planning Act, codified as chapter

226, Hawaii Revised Statutes, outlines a long-range guide for

Hawaii's future and establishes a statewide planning system; and

 

     WHEREAS, section 226-55, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the state agency primarily responsible for a given functional area to prepare a functional plan for that area; and

 

     WHEREAS, functional plans identify priority issues in the functional area and establish objectives, policies, and implementing actions to address those priority issues; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Housing Finance and Development Corporation prepared the State Housing Functional Plan in 1989, which set out a comprehensive plan for the development, preservation, and management of housing in the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, at the request of the Legislature, the Housing Finance and Development Corporation updated the State Housing Functional Plan in 1990 to address the housing needs for all income levels, including the homeless; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State's housing requirements have changed since the State Housing Functional Plan was last updated, including the need for housing in relation to transit-oriented development; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Governor, in coordination with the Office of Planning and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, is requested to update the State Housing Functional Plan; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Governor, in coordination with the Office of Planning and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Director of Human Services, Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Director of the Office of Planning, Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Mayor of the County of Kauai, Mayor of the County of Maui, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Director of the Kauai County Housing Agency, Director of the Department of Community Services for the City and County of Honolulu, Director of the Department of Housing and Human Concerns for the County of Maui, and Housing Administrator of the Office of Housing and Community Development for the County of Hawaii.

Report Title: 

State Planning Act; State Housing Functional Plan

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