STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2761

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3077

       S.D. 1

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. 3077 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a transit-oriented development advisory group to develop, in collaboration with the Office of Planning, a unified action plan for the implementation of transit-oriented development on a statewide level.

     Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Human Services; State Office of Planning; Building Industry Association of Hawaii; and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.

     Your Committees received written comments on this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu and The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

     Your Committees find that State participation is essential to developing mixed-use, mixed-income projects on state lands in close proximity to rail transit stations.  The ad-hoc state transit-oriented development task force submitted a report to the Legislature in 2015 that recommended formally constituting the task force to promote effective and efficient transit-oriented development planning and coordination in the State.  The State is able to provide land and funding to develop more affordable 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.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting section 2 of the measure regarding establishment of a transit-oriented development advisory group to be convened and overseen by the Office of Planning and replacing it with section 2 of Senate Bill No. 2831, establishing the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-oriented Development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism;

     (2)  Adding an appropriation to implement this measure; and

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

     Your Committees note that establishing the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-oriented Development is expected to require an appropriation of $30,000.

     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. 3077, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3077, S.D. 1.

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