STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1653

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.C.R. No. 115

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 115 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING TO UPDATE THE 1991 STATE LAND USE DISTRICT BOUNDARY REVIEW, URBAN LAND REQUIREMENTS STUDY TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF VACANT AND DEVELOPABLE URBAN CLASSIFIED LAND AVAILABLE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Office of Planning to update the 1991 State Land Use Boundary Review, Urban Land Requirements Study to determine the amount of vacant and developable urban classified land available.

The Office of Planning submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that in 1991, a study was conducted to quantify the amount of urban classified land that was available for development, which included resort, business, industrial, agricultural, preservation, special district, and residential and apartment lands. Since that study was conducted, there undoubtedly has been development of these lands in all counties; however, a follow-up to the study has not been performed, and it is currently unclear how much urban classified land is currently vacant and developable within the State. Thus, this measure requests the Office of Planning to update the 1991 study.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 115, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 115.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

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RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair