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Committee delays HCDA transit-oriented development bill for more drafting on financing tools and board changes

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The Senate committee deferred House Bill 1,007 to allow more time to draft financing mechanisms and to clarify governance changes to the HCDA’s transit-oriented development infrastructure program.

The Senate Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts took testimony on House Bill 1,007 and agreed to defer decision-making to its next scheduled session to allow additional drafting on financing tools and governance changes.

The bill has two main elements: a housekeeping expansion of HCDA’s authority to assist other state agencies and projects, and a restructuring of the TOD infrastructure authority by eliminating four county-level boards in favor of oversight by HCDA’s 17-member general authority board. HCDA executive director Craig Nakamoto told the committee the…

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