STAND. COM. REP. NO.1409

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1473

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1473, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a "smart growth" program for the State.

More specifically, this bill establishes a Special Advisor for Smart Growth, who shall be the Director of Planning, and a Smart Growth Advisory Council (Advisory Council) to ensure that state investments and action support smart growth objectives. Under the provisions of this bill, the Special Advisor shall work with the Advisory Council to implement new growth and development practices that reduce public costs and preserve the character and economic productivity of established communities and rural areas.

The Office of Planning, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Hawaii Chapter of the American Planning Association, and People for Environmental and Community Health submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Association of Realtors, Estate of James Campbell, and Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1473, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1473, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair