STAND. COM. REP. NO. 460-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1758

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1758 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the development of housing projects in the State by:

(1) Requiring any housing project developed by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) to conform to the general plan of the county in which the project is situated;

(2) Allowing the legislative body of that county 75 days to approve or disapprove such projects; and

(3) Removing the exemption of such projects from zoning and planning requirements.

The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu and several members of the Maui County Council supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, HCDCH, Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Catholic Charities Elderly Services, and Hawaii Audubon Society opposed this measure. The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, commented.

Your Committees understand that affordable housing is an important issue to this State. Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1758, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Human Services and Housing,

 

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MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair