CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 83-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

RE:    S.B. No. 3077

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 3077, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Establish the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) to coordinate effective and efficient transit-oriented development planning on a statewide level;

     (2)  Designate the Office of Planning as the lead state agency for transit-oriented development coordination;

     (3)  Allow the Department of Education to use school impact fees for schools statewide; and

     (4)  Appropriate funds to DBEDT for coordinating transit-oriented development planning on a statewide level.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that state participation is essential to developing mixed-use, mixed-income projects on state lands in close proximity to rail transit stations.  The State is able to provide land and funding to develop more affordable housing and workforce housing, provide required infrastructure to support development of state-owned parcels, and contribute to increasing the regional capacity of major infrastructure systems to accelerate development.  Therefore, it is critical to establish the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to promote effective and efficient transit-oriented development planning and coordination in the State.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting references to mixed use and affordable and rental housing projects for consideration by the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development when performing its duties related to transit-oriented development projects, programs, or plans;

     (2)  Changing the composition of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to add the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Governor, replace the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs with the Chairperson of the Stadium Authority, add a representative of the community with experience in housing and real estate development, and redesignate the representative of the Honolulu Field Office of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to serve on a non-voting ex-officio basis;

     (3)  Inserting a definition for "development plans" into section 225M-2(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (4)  Specifying that school impact fees from projects within a county-designated transit-oriented development zone may be used for various purposes, including construction of new school facilities in new or existing school sites or leasing land or facilities for school use within a county-designated transit oriented development zone;

     (5)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $50,000 for DBEDT for the purposes of this measure;

     (6)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2016; and

     (7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3077, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3077, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Co-Chair	____________________________ BREENE HARIMOTO, Chair
____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair	____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Co-Chair
____________________________ TY J.K. CULLEN, Co-Chair	____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Co-Chair
	____________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Co-Chair