STAND. COM. REP. NO.  174

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1549

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1549 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INCLUSIONARY ZONING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address affordable housing in the State by prohibiting a county from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing developments that are offered exclusively for sale to buyers earning 120 percent or less of the area median income.

 

     The Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Kai Homeless Task Force, Complete Construction Services Corporation, and Pacific Resource Partnership supported this measure.  The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to an unspecified date that is to be determined, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1549, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1549, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair