Bill Text: HI SR182 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The State And Counties To Consider The History And Reasons Why Lands Are Zoned A Particular Way And Ensure That Those Lands Are Maintained To Protect, Serve, And Provide For The Native Hawaiian Communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-01 - The committee on GVO deferred the measure. [SR182 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SR182-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	182
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

Urging the state and counties to consider the history and reasons why lands are zoned a particular way and ensure that those lands are maintained to protect, serve, and provide for the Native Hawaiian communities.

 

 

     WHEREAS, land trusts conserve natural resources such as natural areas, parks, and farmlands to help keep communities vibrant, enjoyable, and sustainable; and

 

WHEREAS, preservation lands were intended to provide a natural easement between community developments, but sales of preservation lands in the last twenty years in Haiku Plantation, Ahuimanu, Kahaluu, Olomana, and other areas have threatened sacred sites and other Hawaiian cultural and natural resources; and

 

WHEREAS, the conversion of preservation, public, and agricultural lands into rural lands has resulted in those lands becoming "gentlemen farms" that do not serve their original purpose, provide no benefit to the communities, violate the original purpose of the lands, and gentrify Hawaiian communities and spaces, forcing residents to be priced out of their own homes; and

 

WHEREAS, the complex issue of the current housing shortage in Hawaii is exacerbated by the Western imperialist approach of constant exploitation and prostitution of Hawaii's tourist economy, social media, and real estate market to be a destination location built upon a history of mystical allure and the dream to own a piece of the pristine beauty of Hawaii; and

 

WHEREAS, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Island communities experience chronic, episodic, transitional, and hidden homelessness or houselessness in Hawaii due to gentrification and costs of housing being driven up by foreign investor bidding wars, and housing costs not being tied to income levels equivalent with the level of public education these populations receive; and

 

WHEREAS, Hawaii is the gateway to the American dream of wealth where many Pacific Island, European, and other Native people of color come to try to transition to build sustainable wealth, overtaxing Hawaii's fragile and finite ecosystem with an already overcrowded population; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2022, that the Governor, Board of Land and Natural Resources, Land Use Commission, City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, Hawaii County Planning Department, County of Kauai Planning Department, and County of Maui Planning Department are urged to consider the history and reasons why lands are zoned a particular way and to ensure that those lands are maintained to serve the purpose for which they were intended:  to protect, serve, and provide for the Native Hawaiian communities upon whose back the burden of the state budget has been laid upon since the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Chair of the Land Use Commission, and Mayors of the respective counties.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________
		By Request

Report Title:

Land Preservation; Conversion; Zoning; Native Hawaiian;