Bill Text: HI SB1181 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County Zoning

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1181 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1181-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 97

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1181

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1181 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTY ZONING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create a working group on form-based code zoning to examine and make recommendations as to whether the counties should implement form‑based code zoning in place of or as an alternative to existing zoning practices.

 

     Your Committees find that form-based code zoning provides an alternative to current zoning practices.  Form-based code zoning uses physical form, rather than the separation of uses, as the organizing principle for the codes.  Form-based codes address the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks.  The regulations and standards in form-based codes are presented in both words and clearly drawn diagrams and other visuals.  They are keyed to a regulating plan that designates the appropriate form and scale, and therefore the character of development, rather than only distinctions in land use types.

 

     Your Committees further find that form-based code zoning typically implements a community plan to achieve a community vision based on time-tested forms of urbanism.  Ultimately, the quality of development outcomes depends on the quality and objectives of the community plan as implemented by form-based code zoning.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1181 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Technology.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair