STAND. COM. REP. NO.  478-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2872

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2872, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AEROSPACE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DISTRICTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow for aerospace high technology parks to be considered a permitted land use in an agricultural land use district.

The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring aerospace high technology parks to obtain a special permit pursuant to section 205-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2872, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2872, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection,

____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair