STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1386-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2943

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 Committees on Housing and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2943, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT ZONES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage the development of certain public facilities in proximity to rail transit line stations by:

(1) Establishing the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone program to facilitate the development of certain areas;

(2) Authorizing the creation of transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone subaccounts to make grants or loans;

(3) Expanding the use of the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to improve and increase the capacity of infrastructure facilities;

(4) Identifying the members of the Hawaii Community Development Authority authorized to exercise jurisdiction over matters affecting transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zones; and

(5) Appropriating funds for an infrastructure study and for staff to develop and manage the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone program.

The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and Building Industry Association of Hawaii supported this measure. The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning, Hawaii Community Development Authority, and Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development offered comments on this measure.

Your Committees note the Office of Planning's testimony that this measure provides a workable framework for a turnkey delivery system for needed infrastructure improvement in support of transit-oriented development projects in designated transit-oriented development areas.

Your Committees have amended this measure by extending the deadline by one year, from 2019 to 2020, for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, in collaboration with the Hawaii Community Development Authority and Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development, to submit its findings and recommendations on the infrastructure study to the Legislature. The extension is to allow sufficient time for the study and implementation plan for infrastructure improvements to be completed.

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. 2943, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2943, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair