{"id":159954,"date":"2012-03-26T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bf3f3c7a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:12:00","slug":"bf3f3c8e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bf3f3c8e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoning to map out next course of action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoning staff and board members are set to convene next week to work on their next course of action after a local bill that proposed massive changes to the Saipan Zoning Law of 2008 was vetoed last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Zoning administrator Therese T. Ogumoro said yesterday that their meeting is scheduled on April 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough our agenda has been published already, I\u2019m sure we will be discussing this development during the meeting,\u201d Ogumoro told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Benigno R. Fitial vetoed last Thursday House Local Bill 17-26, authored by Rep. Stanley Torres (Ind-Saipan), which would have rezoned 29 areas on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for her comment on the governor\u2019s action, Ogumoro said, \u201cI\u2019m happy that the bill was vetoed by the governor. I\u2019m happy knowing that it\u2019s the right thing for our island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for our next move, we\u2019re waiting to see what happens after this,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ogumoro noted that they are prepared with their comments and reports should the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation request their presence in a meeting to discuss the zoning amendments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoning staff and board members are set to convene next week to work on their next course of action after a local bill that proposed massive changes to the Saipan Zoning Law of 2008 was vetoed last Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}