STAND. COM. REP. NO.127

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1287

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1287 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to consolidate the Aloha Tower Development Corporation and the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) by giving responsibility for the redevelopment of Aloha Tower to HCDA and by appropriating $2,000,000 from the Aloha Tower Fund for the HCDA to expend for that redevelopment.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Governor; the Department of Transportation; the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the Hawaii Community Development Authority; and a representative of Victoria Ward. Although a representative of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation presented oral testimony in support of this measure, the Aloha Tower Development Corporation submitted written testimony in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure would create a more efficient and effective method of continued, positive redevelopment in the Kakaako District.

Your Committee further finds that the money from the Aloha Tower Fund would be used to preserve and expand efforts for Aloha Tower, not spread among the HCDA's other interests. Also, placing the Aloha Tower Development Corporation under the Department of Transportation instead of HCDA was found to not be as efficient. Although the Department of Transportation plays a critical role in the harbor's redevelopment plan, as a development function, Aloha Tower does not fit as well under the department as under HCDA, which owns adjacent property parcels.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1287 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair