STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2760

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3076

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE COMMUNITY PLAN,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure the State has a unified vision and approach toward redevelopment of its properties.

     More specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Designates the Office of Planning as the lead agency to coordinate and advance transit-oriented development planning in the State;

     (2)  Requires that all state agencies' development plans for parcels along the rail transit corridor on Oahu receive approval from the Office of Planning; and

     (3)  Appropriates moneys for the Office of Planning to carry out the purposes of the measure.

     Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.

     Your Committees received written comments on this measure from the Office of Planning and The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

     Your Committees find that the State is the largest owner of land along the rail transit line being constructed by the City and County of Honolulu.  With approximately two thousand acres along the rail line under the jurisdiction of various departments, the State must be proactive, make planning with a statewide policy perspective a priority, and ensure that there is a unified vision and approach toward redevelopment of its properties.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting a requirement that no state executive agency shall begin design or construction or enter into development agreements for parcels along the rail transit corridor unless the Office of Planning approves the agency's plan; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2076, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Energy and Ways and Means,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair