Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1473 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit development of state-owned land on Waimano Ridge until an updated master plan is developed and reviewed by the Waimano Ridge neighborhood boards.

The Manana Community Association, two vice-presidents of the Pearl City Community Association, and two individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Health submitted testimony in opposition. The Office of Information Practices submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that certain uses of state-owned lands in the Waimano Ridge area of Oahu have created unnecessary friction between the state administration and the surrounding community residents. In 2000, the state administration announced that it would be operating a juvenile sex offender treatment facility at the site of the former Waimano home for the developmentally disabled without giving any prior notice to the surrounding community. This was not well received by the community as, prior to the announcement, the facility was already being built without community notice or input.

As pointed out by proponents of this measure, it is necessary to update the master plan that the community and the Department of Health prepared years ago. This measure provides for an update of the master plan and provides for the community's input in the formulation of the updated master plan.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the provision that required the development and approval of a master plan before any new or expanded use or further development of existing leased lands or facilities on state-owned land in the Waimano ridge area could be granted or approved.

Your Committee has further amended this measure by requiring any state or county agency, commission, or department to give the community associations and community boards surrounding the Waimano Ridge area at least ninety days notice of any new or expended use or further development of existing leased lands or facilities on state-owned land in the Waimano ridge area. Your Committee also changed the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion of this matter.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1473, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1473, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture.