STAND. COM. REP. NO. 690-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2570

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Housing and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2570 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ROAD REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE IN HOUSING SUBDIVISIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address the problem of substandard roads in housing subdivisions by requiring lot owners to pay for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads and requiring counties to provide oversight, support, and training for activities related to the assessment, management, and use of funds for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads.

Hawaiian Acres Road Corp. and several concerned individuals supported this measure. The County of Hawai‘i Planning Department and a few concerned individuals opposed this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing the contents of the bill with a three-year pilot project that:

(1) Requires the Department of Transportation, in conjunction with counties that have a population of more than one-hundred eighty thousand but less than two hundred fifty thousand, to identify subdivision roads in need of maintenance and improvement;

(2) Requires the county to assess and collect fees from lot owners in identified subdivisions that are not part of planned communities for the maintenance and improvement of subdivision roads;

(3) Requires the county to expend the collected fees for the maintenance and improvement of subdivision roads; and

(4) Has an effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2570, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2570, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water & Land,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair