STAND. COM. REP. NO.  314

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1267

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1267 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to rejuvenate areas that have become dilapidated, obsolete, or deteriorated by establishing redevelopment districts in public lands by:

 

(1)  Authorizing the designation of redevelopment districts;

 

(2)  Establishing a committee as a policy-making board for each redevelopment district;

 

(3)  Requiring the committee to prepare a redevelopment plan for the designated district;

 

(4)  Establishing a separate revolving fund for each redevelopment district designated; and

 

(5)  Appropriating funds to carry out its purposes, including staffing costs.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by limiting its scope to a single district in the Kanoelehua industrial area.  As amended, this measure:

 

(1)  Establishes a four-year pilot project to be known as the Kanoelehua Redevelopment Pilot Project;

 

(2)  Changes the nature of the planning committee from a policy-making to policy-advising board; 

 

(3)  Removes the revolving fund;

 

(4)  Changes the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(5)  Makes other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity, style, and consistency.

 

     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. 1267, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1267, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair