STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2382

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3077

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Housing and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, 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 state level.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning, Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and Building Industry Association of Hawaii.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

     Your Committees find that in 2015, the ad-hoc state transit-oriented development task force was convened to identify and determine priority sites and projects that should be considered for transit-oriented development master planning and development.  Task force members included state and city and county agencies, elected officials, and numerous private individuals and entities.  In December 2015, the task force submitted a report to the Legislature, which included various recommendations such as formally constituting the state transit-oriented development task force to promote effective and efficient transit-oriented development planning and coordination in developing a unified action plan for transit-oriented development on state transit-oriented development projects.  This measure attempts to adopt the task force's recommendation in order to continue collaborative efforts on transit-oriented development in the State.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3077 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ BREENE HARIMOTO, Chair