STAND. COM. REP. NO.  628-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2176

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2176 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ZONING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize counties to enact ordinances that provide for the amortization or phasing out of single-family vacation rental properties that constitute nonconforming uses in any zoning area.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2176 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair