STAND. COM. REP. NO. 957-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 3201
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B.
No. 3201, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A SCENIC HIGHWAYS SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received, is to establish a
scenic byways system to be identified by the Department of
Transportation.

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from Na
Leo Pohai and Hawaii's Thousand Friends.  The Department of
Transportation submitted testimony that supported the intent of
this bill.

     Your Committee finds that aesthetic, scenic, historic,
cultural, and natural resources of an area are important factors
that create a sense of place and provide communities with an
identity.  Your Committee further finds that many of these places
are threatened by development that does not take into
consideration their special qualities.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its
substance and inserting the contents of H.B. 2721, H.D. 2, which
passed the House after public hearings before this Committee and
your Committee on Finance earlier this session.


 
 
 
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     As amended this measure requires the Director of
Transportation shall establish new design guidelines on or before
June 30, 2003.  The design guidelines will direct the
construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or
rehabilitation of bridges, principal and minor arterial roads,
collector and local roads, and streets.  

     The bill further provides guidelines that will take into
account:

     (1)  Safety, durability, and economy of maintenance;

     (2)  The constructed and natural environment of the area;

     (3)  The potential effects on the local and state economies;

     (4)  The community development plans as reflected in county
          ordinances; 

     (5)  The environmental, scenic, aesthetic, historic,
          community, and preservation impacts of the activity;

     (6)  Access for other modes of transportation; and 

     (7)  Access to and integration of sites deemed culturally
          and historically significant to communities affected.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3201, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3201, S.D.
1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair