STAND. COM. REP. NO. 554

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1191

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land and Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1191 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for statewide planning and coordination for transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, Hawai‘i State Energy Office, and two individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committees find that the promotion of mixed-use development and affordable housing within transit-oriented development areas in the State is one of the most viable means for stimulating economic development opportunities and addressing the need for affordable housing. The Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development, co—chaired by the Director of the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, has been instrumental in coordinating the preparation and subsequent implementation of the state strategic plan for transit—oriented development.

Your Committees further find that since 2016, following the establishment of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development, the Legislature has appropriated capital improvement project funds for the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to support planning of transit-oriented development projects on Oahu and the neighbor island counties. Your Committees find that each year, the request for funds for this purpose has exceeded the funds available. Therefore, this measure appropriates funds to maintain and enhance capacity to support planning of state and county transit-oriented development projects.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a blank amount; and

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion;

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Transportation and Culture and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1191, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1191, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair