Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1806, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require sufficient notice to commanding officers of military installations in the State of proposed zoning changes and petitions for land-use boundary amendments.

Specifically, this measure requires a county planning department that processes zoning change applications to notify the authorities of any military installation of proposed zoning changes on lands, and any petitions for land-use district boundary amendments. This applies to lands within 3,000 feet or two miles of any military installation, depending on the population size of the county. The measure further requires the county land use decision-making authority to take specified steps in reviewing any petition for district boundary amendment involving these lands.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the State Department of Defense and Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. Testimony in opposition was received from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, American Friends Service Committee Hawaii Area Program, and five individuals. Comments were received from the State Land Use Commission.

This measure is intended to address the situation wherein certain base closings in the past resulted from the encroachment on the installation by nearby civilian growth. This encroachment effectively diminished the effectiveness of that military base.

The intent of your Committee is to provide for a fair and deliberate process of zoning change when surrounding land use changes affect a military base.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1806, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture.