Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2774, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist families who may lose their homes due to the closure of plantations such as Del Monte Fresh Produce by making plantation community subdivisions a permitted use under agricultural land use district classification and zoning.

The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and ILWU Local 142 testified in support of this bill. The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure. The Department of Agriculture and State of Hawaii Land Use Commission offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2774, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2774, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.