Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1661 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) to complete construction of the Villages of Kapolei within five years and to collaborate with the Department of Transportation in implementing traffic study recommendations.

The Villages of Kapolei Association (Association) supported the measure. The HCDCH testified in opposition to the measure.

The original plan for the Villages of Kapolei included the construction of five thousand homes in eight villages over a ten-year period. Although more than thirteen years have passed since the recordation of the condemnation agreement between the agency's predecessor and the Campbell Estate, vacant parcels remain undeveloped and roadways have yet to be dedicated to the City and County of Honolulu. Meanwhile, community growth has brought an increase in traffic and unsafe traffic patterns, leading the Association to commission a study for the recommendation of traffic calming measures.

This measure requires completion of the development within five years and implementation of the traffic study recommendations. The HCDCH opposes the measure, citing factors beyond their control, such as sewer capacity and market conditions, that affect the timetable for completion of the development.

Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that the five-year deadline for completion runs from the effective date of this measure, and not from the effective date of Act 100, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, and by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1661, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1661, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.