Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1884, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the counties to adopt ordinances that require subdividers or developers to connect existing accesses to the shoreline with lateral public access along the shoreline as a condition to the final approval of a subdivision.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the County of Kauai, a member of the Maui County Council, Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter, and Life of the Land. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the City and County of Honolulu, the Land Use Research Foundation, and the Hawaii Association of Realtors.

This measure establishes additional requirements for county ordinances in requiring a subdivider or developer to connect existing accesses to the shoreline with lateral public access along the shoreline as a condition to the final approval of a subdivision. Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the public to freely traverse to and from the shoreline.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1884, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.