STAND. COM. REP. NO.292

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 552

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 552 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to streamline government by:

(1) Consolidating the Aloha Tower Development Corporation and the Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission into the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA); and

(2) Designating HCDA as the development authority for the Kalaeloa community development district and the Aloha Tower complex at piers 5-23.

This measure would also stimulate economic development by attracting private sector investment in the Kalaeloa community development district and Aloha Tower complex.

The following agencies testified in support of this measure: the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, HCDA, the Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission, and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. The Aloha Tower Development Corporation supported the intent of this bill, and City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Specifying that one of the two community members on the HCDA Board who are nominated by the Ewa and Makakilo/Kapolei/Honokai Hale Neighborhood Boards shall be a Hawaiian cultural resource specialist;

(2) Requiring that Hawaiian archaeological, historic, and cultural sites be preserved and protected, and that endangered species of flora and fauna as well as significant military facilities be preserved, to the extent possible; and

(3) Correcting certain typographic, technical, and stylistic errors.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land Use and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 552, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 552, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land Use and Transportation,

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair

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EZRA KANOHO, Chair