STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2821

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3034

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3034, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the State's supply of affordable housing.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Office of Planning to approve or disapprove state agencies' redevelopment plans for parcels along the rail transit corridor; and

 

     (2)  Requires state agencies' development or redevelopment plans for parcels along the rail transit corridor to include affordable housing, unless the Office of Planning determines that housing is not feasible or desirable on a particular property.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development; and OCC Legislative Priorities Committee, Democratic Party of Hawai'i.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Stadium Authority.

 

     Your Committee finds that transit-oriented development associated with the construction of the rail transit system in Honolulu has the potential to fulfill the State's housing goal of developing at least 22,500 affordable rental-housing units ready for occupancy between 2017 and 2026.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3034, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3034, S.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair