STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2881

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 59

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 59 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FEE SIMPLE SALE OF KEKUILANI VILLAGE 4, THE VILLAGES OF KAPOLEI, KAPOLEI, HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to approve the fee simple sale of Kekuilani Village 4 of the Villages of Kapolei, in Kapolei, Oahu. 

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by one state agency and one organization.  One state agency submitted comments.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the fee simple sale of this parcel to a developer will expedite the completion of the Villages of Kapolei master plan by providing land for additional affordable housing.  The parcel is 2.490 acres with thirty-five single-family cluster lots and 0.362 acres of shared driveways.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation used the Request for Proposals procurement process to select Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, Inc. as the developer of the parcel.  The parties executed a development agreement on September 19, 2007, which has not yet been recorded.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation assured your Committee that if the Office of Hawaiian Affairs determined this property is necessary to maintain the ceded lands corpus, the Corporation will provide the Office with a right of first refusal.  Your Committee appreciates the intra‑governmental cooperation in reconciling the interests of maintaining the ceded lands corpus and developing affordable housing for qualified residents. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Including a provision specifying that a copy of the measure was submitted to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the date of the submission, in accordance with section 171-64.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Inserting a provision to urge the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to offer the Office of Hawaiian Affairs a right of first refusal to purchase the parcel within thirty days;

 

     (3)  Requiring that a certified copy of the Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Administrator of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purpose of style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 59, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 59, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair