Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 98, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to protect the public's health and safety by urging the City and County of Honolulu to proceed with caution in reviewing developments on steep hillsides with potential rockfall hazards.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure. The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu and the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution by adding language requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau to contact the National Conference of State Legislatures and other states and county jurisdictions for statutes, ordinances, and rules relating to permitting development in areas subject to rockslides, and report back to the Legislature 15 days before the Regular Session of 2007.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 98, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 98, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.