Bill Text: HI SR66 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The Department Of Transportation To Update The Kalaeloa Airport Master Plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - The committee on TRE deferred the measure. [SR66 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-SR66-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	66
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

URGing the department of transportation to update the kalaeloa airport master plan.

 

 

     WHEREAS, Kalaeloa Airport, formerly Barbers Point Naval Air Station, has been owned and operated by the Oahu District of the State Airports System since July 1999, as a general aviation reliever airport for Honolulu International Airport; and

 

     WHEREAS, users of the airport include the United States Coast Guard, Hawaii Community College Flight Program, Hawaii National Guard, and the general aviation community; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2007, there were 123,184 air operations based out of Kalaeloa Airport; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kalaeloa Airport is a major state asset because it provides a launch site for United States Coast Guard Search and Rescue Operations, a training base for general aviation, an emergency response platform, an alternate landing site for airlines and the military, and an extension of the capacity of Honolulu International Airport; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kalaeloa Airport allows the Hawaii National Guard to airlift soldiers and equipment directly from their Kalaeloa facilities, while also acting as a disaster relief site for civil defense agencies; and

 

     WHEREAS, four of the buildings on Kalaeloa Airport are eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of their distinctive architecture; and

 

     WHEREAS, a master plan for the Kalaeloa Airport was adopted soon after the State of Hawaii took control of the airport but has not been updated for nearly eighteen years; and

 

     WHEREAS, the future uses of the airport with respect to the growing development and business investments of the Ko Olina, Ewa Beach, Kapolei, and West Oahu communities need to be planned; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, that the Department of Transportation is urged to conduct an update to the Kalaeloa Airport Master Plan to include strategic plans to promote job growth, economic development, increased commercial flight use, environmental sustainability, and private-public partnerships for mixed-use developments and facility upgrades to the airport; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Transportation is requested to develop and adopt any update to the master plan with the appropriate community input to include residents, businesses, and land owners in the West Oahu and Leeward Oahu regions; and government agencies such as the United States Navy, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, University of Hawaii System, Hawaii Community Development Authority, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and City and County of Honolulu; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Transportation submit the updated master plan to the Legislature upon completion; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Commander of the Navy Region Hawaii, Director of the Western-Pacific Region Airports Division of the Federal Aviation Administration, Governor, Director of Transportation, Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Chief Executive Officer of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, President of the University of Hawaii System, Chairperson of the Hawaii Community Development Authority, and Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Kalaeloa Airport; Master Plan; Update; Department of Transportation