STAND. COM. REP. NO.  209

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 829

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 829, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the development of affordable housing as part of transit-oriented development by:

 

(1)    Directing the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to work with county development agencies to encourage the development of these projects; and

 

(2)    Funding and setting priorities for grants to allow counties to contract for third-party permit reviews to expedite the development process.

 

     The City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and Building Industry Association-Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the affordable housing eligible for incentives pursuant to this Act shall be located within three miles of a transit-oriented development.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 829, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 829, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair