Bill Text: HI HCR54 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Concurrent Resolution 54 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Waianae, Oahu, For The Existing Seawall, Steps, And Landscaped Area And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Existing Improvements Constructed Thereon.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-13 - Referred to WAL/OMH, FIN, referral sheet 39 [HCR54 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-HCR54-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	54
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A TERM, NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT COVERING A PORTION OF STATE SUBMERGED LANDS AT WAIANAE, OAHU, FOR THE EXISTING SEAWALL, STEPS, AND LANDSCAPED AREA AND FOR USE, REPAIR, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE EXISTING IMPROVEMENTS CONSTRUCTED THEREON.

WHEREAS, the existing seawall, steps, and landscaped area identified as Tax Map Key: (1) 8-7-023: seaward of 044, Waianae, Oahu, were placed upon state submerged lands; and

WHEREAS, around August 2016, the property owner, Peter Cushman Lewis, worked with the Department of Land and Natural Resources to resolve the encroachments; and

WHEREAS, on October 13, 2017, under agenda item D-8, the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a grant of a fifty-five-year non-exclusive easement to run with the land and to inure to the benefit of the abutting real property, to resolve the encroachment; and

WHEREAS, the subject area is about 391 square feet, which will be reviewed and approved by the Department of Accounting and General Services' Survey Division; and

WHEREAS, the grantee shall pay the State the fair market value of the easement as consideration for the use of public lands to be determined by an independent appraisal; and

WHEREAS, section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the prior approval of the Governor and prior authorization of the Legislature by concurrent resolution to lease state submerged lands; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, the Senate concurring, that the Board of Land and Natural Resources is hereby authorized to issue a term, non-exclusive easement covering a portion of state submerged lands identified as Tax Map Key: (1) 8-7-023: seaward of 044, Waianae, Oahu, for the existing seawall, steps, and landscaped area and for use, repair, and maintenance of the existing improvements constructed thereon pursuant to section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.