HOUSE COMMITTEE ON LAND USE AND REGULATORY FAIRNESS

May 29, 2001 Hearing Room 357

3:30 p.m. Tapes 23 - 24

MEMBERS PRESENT: Rep. Max Williams, Chair

Rep. Kurt Schrader, Vice-Chair

Rep. Chris Beck

Rep. Karen Minnis

Rep. Susan Morgan

MEMBER EXCUSED: Rep. Kathy Lowe

Rep. Betsy Close

STAFF PRESENT: Virginia Gustafson Lucker, Counsel

Jane Bodenweiser, Committee Assistant

MEASURE/ISSUES HEARD: HB 3998 Public Hearing

These minutes are in compliance with Senate and House Rules. Only text enclosed in quotation marks reports a speaker’s exact words. For complete contents, please refer to the tapes.

TAPE/#	Speaker	Comments
TAPE 23, A
004	Chair Williams	Calls the meeting to order at 3:40 p.m. and opens a public hearing on HB 3998.
HB 3998 PUBLIC HEARING
027	Pat Egan	Governor’s Office Introduces Richard Whitman, Department of Justice. Gives a presentation on transferable development credits and how those credits are determined. Discusses the number of acres the state owns and comments on those that might be available as receiving zones.
255	Chair Williams	Recesses the meeting for a call of the house at 3:55 p.m.
259	Vice Chair Schrader	Reconvenes the meeting at 4:12 p.m.
261	Egan	Continues his presentation.
310	Rep. Morgan	Asks for clarification of how forestland could be potential receiving zones if a home cannot be built on it.
324	Egan	Explains that it would necessitate a variance from current law.
350	Rep. Morgan	Asks if it would require more than a variance.
365	Egan	Replies it would be a matter of legislative policy.
397	Vice Chair Schrader	Explains his understanding of the responsibility of this committee with regard to legislative policy.
424	Egan	Comments that another issue that needs to be addressed is the number of acres of state lands needed.
447	Rep. Morgan	Asks if the transferable credits program would be one of the tools of compensations.
454	Egan	Replies, yes.
463	Rep. Beck	Asks if expansion of the urban growth boundary could be used for development credits.
TAPE 24, A
035	Egan	Replies that probably it logically would come up as a possibility.
052	Chair Williams	Wonders about the impact of common school fund lands.
066	Richard Whitman	Department of Justice Replies that it is the opinion of the Department of Justice that school fund lands are in a trust, and proceeds from the sale of any of those lands would have to be returned to the trust.
124	Chair Williams	Expresses his opinion about the transferable credit program.
151	Vice Chair Schrader	Thanks the governor’s office for the work they have done on identifying lands and asks that a list be provided to each member of the committee.
236	Chair Williams	Closes the public hearing on HB 3998 and adjourns the meeting at 4:38 p.m.

Submitted By, Reviewed By,

Jane Bodenweiser, Virginia Gustafson Lucker,

Committee Assistant Counsel