STAND. COM. REP. NO. 764

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 179

S.D. 3

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 179, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to hold a public hearing on a proposed housing project in the community plan area where the proposed project is to be located; and

(2) Allow the legislative body of the county where the proposed project is to be located sixty rather than forty-five days to approve or disapprove of the project.

Your Committee finds that this measure will allow more public input and time for deliberation by the county legislative body in the review and decision-making on a proposed housing project.

Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive changes to this measure for clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 179, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 179, S.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair