STAND. COM. REP. NO. 293
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 1369
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Economic Development & Business Concerns, to which was referred H.B. No. 1369 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND USE,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to increase the effectiveness of the State's land use classification system by authorizing the county councils to:
(1) Petition the Office of Planning (OP) to initiate the statutorily mandated five-year boundary review of the classifications and districts of all lands in the state, where OP has failed to conduct the review; and
(2) Initiate state land use boundary amendments before the Land Use Commission.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources and OP testified in support of the bill's intent. The Land Use Commission (LUC), University of Hawaii, and the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation commented on this bill.
Your Committees find that the effectiveness of the State's land use classification system will be enhanced with more participation from the counties.
After careful consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by specifying that the planning department of a county:
(1) Will be the agency, subject to an enabling county council resolution, to petition OP to initiate the five-year boundary review; and
(2) May initiate LUC state land boundary amendments which it deems appropriate to conform to the findings of OP's boundary review report.
Your Committees have further amended this bill by adding the words "planning department" to indicate that the county planning department would be affected by this measure. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for style, consistency, and clarity.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Economic Development & Business Concerns that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1369, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1369, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Economic Development & Business Concerns,
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____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair |
____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair |
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