STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2828

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2550

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2550, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Kakaako central small business district, within the geographic boundaries of the Kakaako community development district.

This measure also imposes a moratorium on the Hawaii Community Development Authority from planning, engaging, or beginning any capital improvement project involving any infrastructure construction or street improvements in the Kakaako community development district from its effective date until January 1, 2007.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Transferring jurisdiction over the Kakaako central small business district to the city and county of Honolulu;

(2) Requiring that any use, zoning, planning, and development of land and construction within the Kakaako central small business district shall be in accordance with the ordinances and rules of the City and County of Honolulu;

(3) Limiting the moratorium on the Hawaii Community Development Authority to prohibiting it from undertaking any capital improvement project, involving infrastructure improvements and street improvements, within the Kakaako central small business district rather than within the entire Kakaako community development district;

(4) Changing the effective date of this measure to facilitate further discussion of this matter; and

(5) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2550, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2550, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair