STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2476

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2335

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2335 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the definition of "development" to allow counties to concurrently process subdivision and special management area permits which would expedite the processing of county permit applications.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the County of Maui Department of Public Works and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Planning and Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

     Your Committees find that the increase in the number of minor construction projects and the shortage of county personnel in the various county planning offices have significantly delayed the review and processing of minor projects within special management areas.  By excluding "tentative or preliminary subdivisional approval" it will expedite and facilitate work on projects that have been or may be stalled due to delays relating to special management area permitting requirements.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2335 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair