STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3873

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.C.R. No. 140

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land and Housing, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 140, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP A SCOPE OF WORK OR REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS FOR BIDDERS TO PERFORM THEIR OWN ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY THAT DETERMINES WHETHER A DEVELOPMENT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE LONG-TERM FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE STATE AND RESPECTIVE COUNTY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a scope of work or requests for proposals for bidders to perform their own analysis and methodology that will determine whether a development will contribute to the long-term fiscal sustainability of the State and respective county.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development.

Your Committees find that the Government Accountability Office predicts that state and county governments will operate with negative balances until 2060 without major policy change due to a combination of an aging population and the need to replace degrading infrastructure. Your Committees further find that fiscal sustainability is achievable and requires new development proposals to be not only evaluated against adopted development regulations and construction standards, but also in relation to the fiscal productivity of the project. Your Committees also find that proposed developments should be judged, in part, on their long-term fiscal cost or benefit to the city. Your Committees therefore believe that the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development should develop a scope of work or requests for proposals for bidders to perform their own analysis to determine whether or not a proposed development will contribute to the long-term sustainability of the State and respective county, which would give decisionmakers and the public useful information when renewing project proposals, plans, and zoning applications.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 140, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 140, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

________________________________ STANLEY CHANG, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair