STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1123

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 1147

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Housing and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1147, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1)  Require the strategic plan by the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-oriented Development to require that affordable housing be included as part of the development or redevelopment plan for any state property located within one-half mile of the Honolulu rail transit system based on certain specifications; and

(2)  With respect to the strategic plan, specify that a developer may build less than the required percentages of affordable housing at one state parcel if the developer builds the remainder of the required housing at another state parcel within one-half mile of the rail line.  

Hawaii Public Housing Authority and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Planning and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation opposed this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Human Services, and Hawaii Habitat for Humanity provided comments on this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1)  Requiring that every development or redevelopment plan for any state property within one-half mile of the Honolulu rail transit system evaluate the suitability for affordable housing based on the City and County of Honolulu's Draft Affordable Housing Strategy specifications, rather than requiring that affordable housing be included as part of the development or redevelopment plan;

(2)  With respect to the strategic plan, specify that a developer may build less than the required percentages of affordable housing at one state parcel if the developer builds the remainder of the required housing at another state parcel within one-half mile of a rail station;

(3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2019, to facilitate further discussion; and

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1147, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1147, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Transportation,

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair