STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2047

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2551
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2551 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the threshold for
land use boundary changes under the jurisdiction of the Land Use
Commission from fifteen to fifty acres.

     Testimony in favor of the measure was received from a member
of the Maui County Council, the County of Hawaii's Planning
Department, the Land Use Research Foundation, and the Hawaii
Leeward Planning Conference.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
Land Use Commission, the Department of Business, Economic
Development, and Tourism's Office of Planning, Hawaii's Thousand
Friends, and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter.  The University of
Hawaii's Environmental Center submitted comments on the measure.

     Your Committees find that the counties are capable of
deciding on district boundary amendments for larger parcels of
land.  Your Committees believe that enabling the counties to
authorize district boundary amendments on parcels up to fifty
acres brings the land use planning process closer to the
community that will be affected by the boundary amendment and
would also streamline the zoning process.

 
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     Your Committees have amended the bill by deleting the
proposed language that only allowed those counties that delegate
its zoning authority to a planning commission to be able to amend
district boundaries for parcels up to fifty acres.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to
this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2551, as amended herein, and recommend that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as
S.B. No. 2551, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and
                                   Transportation and
                                   Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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