STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1095

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1148

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1148, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Require the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) to conduct a feasibility study that:

 

(A)  Examines HCDA assuming the role of planning, developing, and redeveloping all state-owned lands, except for lands administered by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA), within a mile of the Honolulu rail transit system; and

 

(B)  Includes recommendations and a general implementation plan for creating a new community development district along the rail corridor; and

 

(2)  Appropriate funds to enable HCDA to complete the feasibility study.

 

     The Office of Planning, HCDA, HPHA, Department of Transportation, and City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the scope of the study to encompass all state-owned lands within one-half mile of the Honolulu rail transit system; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

Should this measure proceed further in the legislative process, your Committees respectfully request that the following be considered in future committee deliberations:

 

(1)  Appropriating $300,000 to retain the services of a consultant to conduct the feasibility study;

 

(2)  Changing the deadline for submission of the feasibility study to the Legislature to prior to the Regular Session of 2019 and including submission of an interim report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2018;

 

(3)  Making the Office of Planning the lead agency for the feasibility study; and

 

(4)  Eliminating the requirement in the feasibility study for a general implementation plan for creating a new community development district along the rail corridor, as doing so would support existing State and county collaborative planning efforts.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1148, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1148, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

 


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Transportation,

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair