STAND. COM. REP. NO.  397

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 363

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 363 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage an increase in the supply of affordable housing by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the counties to provide fee waivers and other incentives for the development of affordable housing; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the counties to provide flexibility in public facility requirements for rental housing projects with units set aside for tenants with incomes at or below the area median income, 40 percent of which units are set aside for tenants with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Developers' Council, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of the Governor and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation supported the intent of the bill.  Kamehameha Schools testified in support of the bill with amendments.  The State Procurement Office, Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 368, and Housing Hawaii submitted comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by removing procurement exemptions as one of the suggested incentives.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 363, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 363, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

 

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RIDA CABANILLA, Chair