Bill Text: HI SB2745 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Planning Act; Priority Guidelines; Climate Change

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 286, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1403). [SB2745 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2745-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1110-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2745

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 2745, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to add priority guidelines to the Hawaii State Planning Act to address the expected impacts of climate change.

 

     The Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting; the Hawaii Chapter of the American Planning Association; and The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i supported this measure.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and the Building Industry Association of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.  Life of the Land supported this measure with amendments.  An individual opposed this measure.  Windward Ahupuaa Alliance commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring that the governing body or planning commission or department of each county consider a predicted sea level rise of one foot by 2050 when reviewing applications for building, zoning, and other permits and in future development plans; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Your Committees note that this measure only provides guidance to the counties with respect to permitting and development and does not require any particular course of action other than consideration of the issues.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2745, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2745, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair		____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair