STAND. COM. REP. NO.3044

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 536

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 536 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the counties to continue administering special management area permits and shoreline setback variances in community development districts where no community development plan is in effect.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism Office of Planning, Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA), City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, County of Hawaii Planning Department, and Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference.

Your Committees find this measure will correct an unintended consequence of the law governing special management area and shoreline setback variances within community development districts.

Your Committees have amended this measure at the request of the County of Hawaii, with the concurrence of the HCDA, to repeal the Hamakua Community Development District statute, as there is no longer a need to include Hamakua under the jurisdiction of the HCDA.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 536, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 536, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Energy and Environment,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair