STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1424

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 715

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 715, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Statewide Transportation Plan to comply with county transportation-related plans, county general plans, and all community, development, and community-development plans, to the extent the receipt of federal funds is not affected by compliance.

     The Honolulu Department of Transportation Services, Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, a member of the Maui County Council, the Hawaii Association of Realtors, and Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO supported this bill.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 715, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

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KEN ITO, Chair