STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1654-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2335

      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 Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2335, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to process special management area use permits concurrently with an application for tentative subdivision approval in counties with a population of less than 500,000 but more than 160,000.

The Planning Department of the County of Hawaii and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs opposed the measure.  The Office of Planning offered comments on the measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing the county population component from the proviso in the definition of "development" and replacing it with, counties that may automatically approve tentative subdivision applications as a ministerial act within a fixed time of the submission of a plat map, unless the director takes specific action;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to promote further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2335, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2335, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair