STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 50-22
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2022
RE: H.B. No. 1836
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2022
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Housing and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1836 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to expedite the development of affordable housing by:
(1) Establishing expedited county approvals by the appropriate county land use decision-making authority for district boundary amendments for affordable housing projects on land areas of fifteen acres or less; and
(2) Requiring consultation with the Hawaii Community Development Authority for affordable housing projects developed in designated community development districts.
Your Committees find that existing law establishes a forty-five day entitlement approval process for affordable housing projects seeking district boundary amendments from the State Land Use Commission or county approvals and exemptions relating to planning, zoning, subdivision construction standards, land development and improvement, or construction of dwelling units. However, the existing law does not address boundary amendment applications for certain parcels of land of fifteen acres or less that are submitted to county agencies rather than to the State Land Use Commission. This measure seeks to expedite the approval process for district boundary amendments for affordable housing by the counties to address the urgent affordable housing needs felt throughout the State.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 1836, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1836, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water & Land,
____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |
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____________________________ NADINE K. NAKAMURA, Chair |
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