STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1218

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 117

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Water and Land, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 117 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL PARCELS OF LAND UNDER THE OWNERSHIP OF THE STATE OR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU WHERE JURISDICTION SHOULD BE EXCHANGED TO FACILITATE SPECIFIC MISSIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to facilitate the completion of state and City and County of Honolulu development projects by urging the Office of Planning to form a working group to determine if parcels owned by the State that are needed by the City and County of Honolulu to complete rail transit related projects can be exchanged for parcels owned by the City and County of Honolulu that are needed by the State to complete certain projects, including Twenty-First Century School Initiative projects.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning, and Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committees find that land exchanges between the State and the City and County of Honolulu could be mutually beneficial to both and could ultimately benefit the residents of the State by allowing the expeditious completion of projects desired by the public.  This measure is an important step in exploring the feasibility of mutual land exchanges between the State and City and County of Honolulu and will help facilitate further dialogue between the two entities on this issue.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Water and Land, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 117, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 117, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, Water and Land, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair