STAND. COM. REP. NO.  670

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1267, H.D. 1, 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 in the Kanoelehua Industrial Area (Area) on the island of Hawaii by:

(1)  Establishing a four-year Kanoelehua Redevelopment Pilot Project to enable the Department of Land and Natural Resources to recommend policies that:

(A)  Define policies for the management of public lands in the Area;

(B)  Establish a plan for the designated redevelopment district in the Area, including district-wide improvements; and

(C)  Implement asset and property management concepts to optimize income;

(2)  Requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources Chairperson to establish a planning committee for the Area to prepare a redevelopment plan for the designated redevelopment district; and

(3)  Appropriating funds to carry out the purposes of this measure.  

A Hawaii County Council Member; Kanoelehua Industrial Area Association; McCully Works; Chika Nakano Repair Shop; Hilo Bay Printing Co., Ltd.; and two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and an individual opposed this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 1267, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair