STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1215-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2525

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2525, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the East Kapolei Community Development District under the Hawaii Community Development Authority to guide the development of the East Kapolei area, including the area specified in the East Kapolei neighborhood transient-oriented development plan;

(2) Dissolve the Kakaako Community Development District;

(3) Amend the membership of the Hawaii Community Development Authority accordingly; and

(4) Require the Hawaii Community Development Authority to establish a plan by January 1, 2020 to return planning, zoning, and infrastructure development responsibilities for the Kakaako Community Development District to the City and County of Honolulu.

The O‘ahu Island Parks Conservancy, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Kaka‘ako United, and Kaka‘ako Makai Community Planning Advisory Council opposed this measure. The Hawaii Community Development Authority, Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and The Howard Hughes Corporation provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting language repealing chapter 206E, part II, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which would have dissolved the Kakaako Community Development District;

(2) Specifying that the plan which transfers jurisdiction over the Kakaako Community Development District to the City and County of Honolulu shall address the transition of personnel resources from the Kakaako Community Development District to the East Kapolei district in a separate, special plan and shall effectuate the transfer on July 1, 2024;

(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2100, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2525, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2525, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair