Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1661, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee finds that the Villages at Kapolei, a project of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, is ten years old and has yet to be completed. As part of Oahu's "second city", Kapolei is a planned community located on the Ewa plains of Oahu. Your Committee finds that, to date, three villages have been completed, three are still under construction, two more are yet to begin construction, and a total of five thousand units are planned.

Your Committee finds that community growth has brought an increase in traffic and unsafe traffic patterns, leading the Villages of Kapolei Homeowners' Association to commission a study regarding traffic calming measures and reducing traffic congestion. Your Committee believes that this measure is necessary to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the Villages at Kapolei.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1661, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1661, S.D. 2.