STAND. COM. REP. NO.  372

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1950

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1950 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the provisions of the housing law that exempts certain types of government housing projects from planning, zoning, and construction standards by increasing, from forty-five days to ninety days, the window for:

 

     (1)  County legislative body project approvals and                  disapprovals; and

 

     (2)  Land Use Commission land use boundary approvals and            disapprovals.

 

     This bill also inserts a provision allowing county legislative bodies to approve a project with or without modifications.  This provision was inadvertently dropped when the 2006 Legislature recodified chapter 201G, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), as chapter 201H, HRS.

 

     The Maui County Council and two Maui Council members testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and the Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services & Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1950 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services & Housing,

 

 

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair