{"id":178160,"date":"2014-09-03T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=178160"},"modified":"2014-09-03T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:00:50","slug":"new-local-law-oks-funeral-homes-chalan-kanoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-local-law-oks-funeral-homes-chalan-kanoa\/","title":{"rendered":"New local law OKs funeral homes in Chalan Kanoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting governor Jude U. Hofschneider signed a local law on Friday amending the Saipan Zoning Law of 2013 to allow funeral homes or crematorium in Chalan Kanoa.  <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider signed Rep. Ray Tebuteb\u2019s (Ind-Saipan) House Local Bill 18-55 into Saipan Local Law 18-20, amending the Saipan Zoning Law of 2013 to include funeral homes as a conditional use in \u201cvillage commercial zoning district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Borja Funeral Homes, currently in Oleai, is proposing to move to the former Carmen\u2019s Baby News Store in Chalan Kanoa. The plan is to build a funeral home or crematorium at the new location.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider also appointed Ignacio Pangelinan Kiyoshi on Friday to serve on the Commonwealth Development Authority board of directors representing Tinian.<\/p>\n<p>Kiyoshi\u2019s appointment requires the Senate\u2019s advice and consent. If confirmed, he will serve a four-year term beginning on the date of his confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor and I are confident that Mr. Kiyoshi is qualified and will be an asset on this important board,\u201d Hofschneider said in a letter to Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>The acting governor, meanwhile, told Saipan Tribune that he is still reviewing the bill raising the cigarette tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting governor Jude U. Hofschneider signed a local law on Friday amending the Saipan Zoning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-178160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178160","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}