Report Title:

Harbors

Description:

Removes Honolulu Harbor Piers 1 and 2 from Kakaako community development district and grants jurisdiction and administrative authority to Piers 1 and 2 to department of transportation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

85

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to harbors.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that maritime lands are a finite resource of the State. In particular, Honolulu harbor Piers 1 and 2 contain vital and unique maritime cargo facilities that cannot be easily relocated. Any relocation of these facilities would be prohibitively expensive. Piers 1 and 2 and the contiguous backup fast lands and access roads, comprising of approximately twenty-nine acres, must be protected and preserved to provide for an expansion area consistent with the predicted growth of future cargo requirements and to permit for the safe and efficient berthing of major cargo vessels. Projections made by the department of transportation, harbors division, indicate that foreign cargo capacity will be exhausted within five years at the present rate of growth.

Piers 1 and 2 now provide approximately twenty-nine contiguous acres of cargo yard storage space. This area is expected to decrease by approximately five acres with the development of part of pier 2 as a passenger cruise ship terminal.

The purpose of this Act is to change the boundaries of the Kakaako community development district to exclude piers 1 and 2 and the contiguous backup fast lands from that district and give the department of transportation, harbors division, the jurisdiction and administrative authority over the area.

SECTION 2. Section 206E-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§206E-32 District; established, boundaries. (a) The Kakaako community development district is established. The district shall include that area bounded by King Street; Piikoi Street from its intersection with King Street to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana Boulevard, inclusive, from Piikoi Street to its intersection with the Ewa boundary of Ala Moana Park also identified as the Ewa boundary of tax map key 2-3-37:01; the Ewa boundary of tax map key 2-3-37:01 from its intersection with Ala Moana Boulevard to the shoreline; the shoreline from its intersection with the property line representing the Ewa boundary of property identified by tax map key 2-3-37:01 to the property line between Pier 2 and Pier 4; the property line between Pier 2 and Pier 4 from its intersection with the shoreline to Ala Moana Boulevard; Ala Moana Boulevard from its intersection with the property line between lands identified by Pier 2 and Pier 4 to Punchbowl Street; and Punchbowl Street to its intersection with King Street.

(b) The district shall also include that parcel of land identified by tax map key 2-1-14:16, situated mauka of Pier 6 and Pier 7 and makai of Nimitz Highway, being the site for the existing Hawaiian Electric power plant and related facilities.

(c) Subsection (a) to the contrary notwithstanding, Honolulu harbor piers 1 and 2 and the contiguous areas used for cargo and passenger operations, comprising of approximately twenty-nine acres, shall be excluded from the Kakaako community development district."

SECTION 3. Chapter 266, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§266- Honolulu harbors pier 1 and 2. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, the department shall have jurisdiction and administrative authority over Honolulu harbor piers 1 and 2 and the contiguous backup fast lands used for cargo and passenger operations, consisting of approximately twenty-nine acres, that were formerly included in the Kakaako community development district established by section 206E-32."

SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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