STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1132

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 680

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 680 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KAKAAKO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the requirement that the Hawaii Community Development Authority consider recommendations by the Kakaako Makai Community Planning Advisory Council in developing, accepting, and implementing any plans for the development of the Kakaako Makai area of the Kakaako Community Development District.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Gary Holmes, Dale Holmes, Bessie Yagi, Edwin Yagi, Juanita Brown, Scott Moon, Todd Murata, Nick Soliven, and Keane Backman.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Sierra Club Oahu Group; Hawaii's Thousand Friends; Advanced Restaurant Management, Ltd.; The Outdoor Circle; Wayne Takamine; John S. Carroll; Johannes Schothorst; Jeannine Johnson; Bill Wise; Aaron Mendonca; Stanley Takamine; Betty Takamine; Mark Martindale; Robert Richmond; Douglas Palama; Jon Hatakenaka; Craig Jerome; Dexter Okada; Lydi Bernal; Anthony Aalto; Reg White; Gayle Lau; Stephanie Pulido; and Jaime Pulido.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from Kaka‘ako Community Alliance and C. Scott Bradley.

     Your Committee finds that after years of work, the Kakaako Makai Community Planning Advisory Council completed and published their Vision and Guiding Principles for the Kakaako Makai Area in 2009.  Your Committee finds that the Vision and Guiding Principles for the Kakaako Makai area can be best implemented by creating a subdistrict of the Kakaako Community Development District, and the land in the Kakaako Makai Area can be put to the highest and best use by authorizing the Hawaii Community Development Authority to subdivide real property within the Kakaako Community Development District.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Establishing a Kakaako Makai Community Development Subdistrict and requiring the Hawaii Community Development Authority to act as the local development authority to facilitate the development of the subdistrict in accordance with certain statutory requirements;

     (2)  Adding three voting members to the Hawaii Community Development Authority to represent the Kakaako Makai Community Development Subdistrict;

     (3)  Clarifying the powers and rule-making authority of the Hawaii Community Development Authority with respect to the subdivision of real property in the Kakaako Community Development District; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 680, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 680, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair