STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2190

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2969

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2969 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reduce the size threshold for a single-family residence that is not part of a larger development to be excluded from the definition of "development" for purposes of the special management areas law.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Planning Department of the County of Hawai‘i.

Your Committee finds that the proposed reduction in the floor area threshold of a single-family residence in this measure will offer further opportunity for the county planning departments to review potential cumulative impacts, or significant environmental or ecological effects, from construction or reconstruction of a single-family residence on a special management area.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2969, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2969, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Water and Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair