THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2023

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER AND LAND

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair

Senator Brandon J.C. Elefante, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2023

 

DATE:

Monday, February 6, 2023

TIME:

1:00 P.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

WTL

 

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SB 69

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT.

Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program.  Includes the promotion of research, study, and understanding of the suitability and impacts of different sea level rise adaptation as a policy of the Coastal Zone Management Program.  Includes the maintenance of a balance between public and private interests in implementing sea level rise adaptation and consideration of all appropriate sea level rise adaptations as policies of the Coastal Zone Management Program.  Includes as a policy of the Coastal Zone Management Program that any construction on shoreline be allowed if it is determined to preserve, protect, or rehabilitate the beach of be considered vital development.  Requires the County Planning Commission to allow proposed development within the shoreline area and within the sea level rise exposure area under certain circumstances.  Prohibits any policy or guideline for setting special area use permit application procedures that has the effect of a rule without complying with the rulemaking process.  Preempts any rule, policy, or guideline inconsistent with the Special Management Area Guidelines.  Allows counties to require that shoreline setback lines be established at greater distances in certain circumstances.  Provides that no variance be denied for maintenance, renovation, or repair of a lawful nonconforming structure with exceptions.

 

WTL, WAM/JDC

 

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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