SB1028 CD1

Report Title:

State Redevelopment

 

Description:

Integrates the Barber's Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission into the Hawaii Community Development Authority for one year. (CD1)

 

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1028
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 2
		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Barbers Point Naval Air Station was officially closed on July 1, 1999, and the Navy is in the process of conveying two thousand one hundred fifty acres of this property, which has been named the "Kalaeloa community development district" to various agencies of the State and the city and county of Honolulu. Development of this district is currently being undertaken by the Barber's Point Naval Air Station redevelopment commission.

Barbers Point lands present unique opportunities for economic development and job creation for the area.

SECTION 2. The Barbers Point Naval Air Station redevelopment commission shall begin to integrate into the Hawaii community development authority during a one-year transition period from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002.

SECTION 3. Five additional voting members shall be appointed to the Hawaii community development authority by the governor to represent the Kalaeloa community development district as follows:

(1) The chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission;

(2) The director of the city and county of Honolulu department of planning and permitting;

(3) Two members representing the surrounding community for a term pursuant to section 26-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes. One member shall be selected from a list of three nominees recommended by the Ewa neighborhood board. The second member shall be selected from a list of three nominees recommended by the Makakilo/Kapolei/Honokai Hale neighborhood board; and

(4) One member who shall be a Hawaiian cultural resource specialist. This member shall be selected from a list of three nominees recommended by the department of Hawaiian homelands after consultation with Hawaiian civic groups.

SECTION 4. Public forums to allow community project proposals and community input prior to adoption of any development project by the Hawaii community development authority or the Barbers Point Naval Air Station redevelopment commission.

SECTION 5. During the transition period in section 2, the Barbers Point Naval Air Station redevelopment commission and the Hawaii community development authority shall be limited in their projects and developments at the Barbers Point Naval Air Station to the scope of the Kalaeloa Redevelopment Plan: A Special Area Plan of the Ewa Development Plan, December 2000, prepared for the Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission.

SECTION 6. The Hawaii community development authority shall submit the consolidation plan to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the regular session of 2003.

SECTION 7. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $160,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for the purposes of this Act.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the Hawaii community development authority.

SECTION 8. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.