STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3209

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2428

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2428 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt state highway projects from county subdivision approvals regarding highway projects that involve acquisitions.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.  The Department of Planning and Permitting, City and County of Honolulu submitted testimony in opposition.

 

     Your Committees find that the current county approval process duplicates many of the practices already required in long range planning, environmental studies, the public involvement process and the legislative approval of each project.  The county process requires an application for each subdivision taking, an application fee, tax clearances, a response to numerous reviewing agencies and requires the owners to sign off on subdivision applications before negotiations are completed.  This measure would eliminate the lengthy and redundant review process.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2428, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair