STAND. COM. REP. NO. 144

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 178
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Energy and
Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 178
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND USE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to create a public-private task
force to study and recommend constitutionally acceptable
structural changes to the land use regulatory system.  

     Your Committees received testimony as follows:

     1.   Land Use Commission, Department of Land and Natural
          Resources, County of Hawaii Planning Department, Hawaii
          Business Roundtable, Estate of James Campbell, Land Use
          Research Foundation, in support; and 

     2.   Hawaii's Thousand Friends, in opposition. 

     Your Committees find that the task force, in carrying out
its mission of streamlining the land use process, should
emphasize the elimination of duplication and avoid any action
that would remove any of the important land use regulatory
safeguards which protect our prime agricultural lands as mandated
by the Constitution, and our vital conservation lands.  The task
force will not consider the elimination of the Land Use
Commission.  It is the intention of your Committees that in
carrying out its mission, the task force will provide adequate
notice of its public meetings and, in general, maximize public
participation. 

     Your Committees revised the bill by:  


 
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     1.   Removing all reference to the Director of Business,
          Economic Development, and Tourism; 

     2.   Removing the representative from the American Planners
          Association from the task force; 

     3.   Adding the Chairperson of the Land Use Commission; 

     4.   Providing that the Director of the Office of Planning
          shall be the chairperson of the task force, and
          providing for the filling of vacancies, the volunteer
          status of members and reimbursement for travel
          expenses; 

     5.   Adding an appropriation section and providing that the
          appropriation shall take effect on July 1, 1999; and 

     6.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water and Land Use and Energy and Environmental
Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 178, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 178, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water and Land
                                   Use and Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair           ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair