STAND. COM. REP. NO. 650

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1313

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1313, 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 abolish the Hawaii Community Development Authority (Authority) and transfer the authority, duties, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Authority to:

     (1)  The Department of Land and Natural Resources with respect to the Kalaeloa Community Development District and the portion of the Kakaako Community Development District that is makai of Ala Moana Boulevard, along with the submerged lands and contiguous fast lands necessary for the management, maintenance, and operation of Kewalo basin; and

     (2)  The City and County of Honolulu, with respect to the portion of the Kakaako Community Development District that is mauka of Ala Moana Boulevard,

provided that zoning authority over all real property in the Kalaeloa Community Development District and the Kakaako Community Development District, both mauka and makai of Ala Moana Boulevard, is transferred to the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee has received three comments on this measure.  Copies of written comments submitted to the Committee are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that following its establishment by the Legislature in 1973, the Authority has made vast improvements within the Kakaako Community Development District, an area at the heart of urban Honolulu that, at the time, was being underutilized and in need of renewal, renovation, and improvement.  However, your Committee finds that the Authority has accomplished the majority of the tasks that were set forth for it in Kakaako.  Your Committee further finds that the Authority has made major strides in preparing and adopting the development guidelines for the Kalaeloa Community Development District. 

Accordingly, your Committee believes that it is time to transfer the continuing zoning oversight of the Kakaako Community Development District and the Kalaeloa Community Development district over to the City and County of Honolulu, while retaining the ownership of the Kalaeloa Community Development District and the portion of the Kakaako Community Development District makai of Ala Moana Boulevard, along with Kewalo Basin, in the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to allow for further discussion of this measure.

     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. 1313, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1313, S.D. 2.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair