Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred H.B. No. 536 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to correct a technical problem pertaining to the Office of Planning's review and approval of special management area (SMA) permits and shoreline setback variances in community development districts.

Currently, the Office of Planning has no basis for granting these approvals in community development districts such as the Hamakua Community Development District where no community development plan has been developed and approved. Such plans serve as a basis for decision-making and actually supercede the county general plan and zoning.

This bill corrects the problem by allowing the counties to continue administering SMA permits and shoreline setback variances in community development districts until a community development plan is developed and approved.

The Office of Planning, the Hawaii Community Development Authority, and the County of Hawaii Planning Department testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 536 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.