STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1669

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 130

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Transportation, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 130 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO WORK WITH ROYAL HAWAIIAN GOLF CLUB TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF OLD GOVERNMENT ROAD,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to work with Royal Hawaiian Golf Club to locate and delineate the portions of the Old Government Road that are within the golf course development, and to develop a plan for the management and maintenance of the road alignment, including making certain specified determinations.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Old Government Road once connected the Pali with Waimanalo, but has since been discontinued as a public highway.  Old Government Road is owned by the State in fee.

     Your Committees find that through years of non-use, various parts of the Old Government Road are in disrepair and in many areas the roadway is overgrown with vegetation.

     On June 13, 1968, the Department of Land Utilization, City and County of Honolulu, approved a request by the Royal Hawaiian Golf Club for a conditional use permit to establish a recreational facility.  As a condition of the use permit, Royal Hawaiian Golf Club was required to provide and indicate on the approved grading plan, a pedestrian trail for public use over the project site leading from the Maunawili Estates Subdivision to Maunawili Falls. In meeting the requirements of the use permit, Royal Hawaiian Golf Club provided a pedestrian trail to Maunawili Falls that appears to traverse Old Government Road.

     Accordingly, this measure requests the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2016.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 130, and recommend its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Transportation,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

________________________________ LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair