STAND. COM. REP. NO. 931

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 365

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand exclusions to the definition of "development" in chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to reduce the need for Special Management Area permits for certain activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, one member of the Maui County Council, Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and Hawai‘i State Association of Counties.

Your Committee finds that under existing law, no development is allowed in any county within a special management area without a permit. The existing broad definition of development, coupled with rising labor and materials costs, can trigger a mandatory special management area use permit review for improvements, facilities, and incidental structures that is unnecessarily stringent and costly.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 365, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair