Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 178 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to statutorily authorize the counties to petition the Office of Planning, through a council resolution, to conduct a periodic boundary review of lands within the respective counties as required under law.

The Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference and Hawaii's Thousand Friends submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Office of Planning submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee would like to permit further discussion on the issues underlying this bill and feels that consideration should be given to amending the current law that requires boundary reviews to be conducted every five years. Specifically, your Committee finds that further analysis is needed of the costly nature of boundary reviews versus the benefits gained through the updated information and the degree to which changes are implemented based on the boundary reviews.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 178 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.