Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 300 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convene a Land Use Working Group under the auspices of the Legislature and the Land Use Commission to address land issues relating to non-agricultural activity on agriculturally classified lands and to report their findings and recommendations to the 2007 Regular Session of the Legislature.

The Department of Agriculture, the Office of Planning, and the Land Use Commission testified in support of this measure. The Land Use Research Foundation and Hawaii Farm Bureau supported the intent of this measure and offered their comments.

Written testimony in support of this measure was received from the Sierra Club, the Maui County Farm Bureau, and the Hawaii Association of Realtors.

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture believe that this is an important and necessary step to take in effecting comprehensive reform of the state Land Use Laws.

Your Committees have amended this measure to:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 300, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 300, H.D. 1.