Report Title:

Honolulu harbor; Piers 1 & 2

Description:

Excludes certain land parcels that comprise Piers 1 and 2, at Honolulu Harbor, from land designated for inclusion in the Kakaako Community Development District.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2424

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE KAKAAKO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that maritime lands are a finite resource of the State. In particular, Piers 1 and 2, Honolulu harbor, support vital and unique maritime activities including berthing piers for cargo ships and passenger vessels, container cargo facilities, a cruise ship terminal, and the foreign trade zone no. 9. These maritime functions are crucial and cannot be relocated. Piers 1 and 2, the contiguous backup fast lands and access roads, comprising approximately 65 acres, must be protected and preserved for maritime operations. The various maritime operations, and the related foreign trade zone no. 9, are an integral part of the commercial harbor system that represents the lifeblood of the economy of the State of Hawaii. Nearly 80 per cent of all goods used in our State is imported, and of this amount, 98.6 per cent is brought through the commercial harbor system. Our current robust economy has continued to add to the demand placed particularly on manifested cargo processing operations and the State can ill afford to lose any prime berthing and back up fast lands to other non-maritime uses.

The purpose of this Act is to revise the boundaries of the Kakaako community development district to specifically delete certain parcels, more particularly described below, from the district's established boundaries. The Hawaii community development authority shall convey the identified parcels back to the department of land and natural resources by quitclaim deed in order that the governor can issue executive orders to the department of transportation, harbors division, and the department of business, economic development and tourism, foreign trade zone division, respectively, to ensure preservation of these lands for continued maritime use.

SECTION 2. Section 206E-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§206E-32 District; established, boundaries. The Kakaako community development district is established. The district shall include that area bounded by King Street; Piikoi Street from its intersection with King Street to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana Boulevard, inclusive, from Piikoi Street to its intersection with the Ewa boundary of Ala Moana Park also identified as the Ewa boundary of tax map key 2-3-37:01; the Ewa boundary of tax map key 2-3-37:01 from its intersection with Ala Moana Boulevard to the shoreline; the shoreline from its intersection with the property line representing the Ewa boundary of property identified by tax map key 2-3-37:01 to the property line between Pier 2 and Pier 4; the property line between Pier 2 and Pier 4 from its intersection with the shoreline to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana Boulevard from its intersection with the property line between lands identified by Pier 2 and Pier 4 to Punchbowl Street; and Punchbowl Street to its intersection with King Street[.]; provided that the following parcels located at piers 1 and 2 shall be deleted from the Kakaako community development district boundaries and conveyed to the department of land and natural resources to be set aside for the department of transportation and the department of business, economic development and tourism, foreign trade zone division, to ensure continued maritime and foreign commerce use: all of lot 3 of the Forest Avenue subdivision, as shown on the map filed in the bureau of conveyances of the State of Hawaii, as file plan 2335; lot A-2, as shown on map 2, filed in the office of the assistant registrar of the land court of the State of Hawaii with land court application 1328; parcel 3-A, as shown on a map filed in the bureau of conveyances of the State of Hawaii, as file plan 2335; parcel 2, as shown on a map filed in the bureau of conveyances of the State of Hawaii, as file plan 2335; lot A-1, as shown on map 2, filed in the office of the assistant registrar of the land court of the State of Hawaii with land court application 1328; parcel A, as shown on a map filed in the bureau of conveyances of the State of Hawaii, as file plan 2335; parcel B, as shown on a map filed in the bureau of conveyances of the State of Hawaii, as file plan 2335; and provided further that all existing easements affecting and appurtenant to the parcels to be deleted from the Kakaako community development district boundaries shall not be affected by this change.

The district shall also include that parcel of land identified by tax map key 2-1-14:16, situated mauka of piers 6 and 7 and makai of Nimitz Highway, being the site for the existing Hawaiian Electric power plant and related facilities.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST