Public Lands Secretary Marianne Tergeyo would be leading a multi-agency team that would survey Pagan in January. DPL had already solicited requests for proposal from several contractors for vessels that would bring them to one of the CNMI\u2019s northernmost islands.<\/p>\n
Personnel from the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, the CNMI Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety, the Superior Court, Commonwealth Utilities Corp., and Land Registration surveyors would join Teregeyo and some of her DPL staff.<\/p>\n
Court personnel need to join since there are some parcels of land on Pagan that have existing lawsuits and cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intention of the trip is for agricultural village homesteads in Pagan. We will have somebody from the courts since there\u2019s a case down there so they needed to join us. DPL will be teaming up with Land Registration in doing the surveys,\u201d Teregeyo said.<\/p>\n
She said that DPL had also issued agricultural permits on Tinian after doing homestead inspections on the island in August and September. \u201cThey have not done any inspections in about 15 years on Tinian. So we\u2019ve done homestead inspections and sent a lot of letters to Tinian residents.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are also about 40 lands on Saipan that have been revoked and have been appealed that are ready for redistribution. \u201cThese are different from the last time because now the hearing officer has heard the cases and some of them were reconsidered and some were not.\u201d Teregeyo said their collection increased by about $1 million in fiscal year 2016 after going up against land encroachers. \u201cCollections in antitrust lawsuits are not yet included. There are a lot of businesses and companies that are building on public lands and we are aggressively going against encroachers.\u201d<\/p>\n A few months ago, DPL identified nine land encroachment cases. She said some businesses built structures 12 to 15 feet from their buildings.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve gone out and appraised the area and billed them. Some of them settled, while some we filed encroachment cases in court. The recent one was a beachside property that extended their [establishment] so we filed a case in court.\u201d Teregeyo said that 11\u2014individuals or corporations\u2014that submitted RFPs for land use in developing these properties. Seven of the 11 are for quarry operations while four are for other property development. This was the first time that seven have applied for quarry operations, showing that there\u2019s a huge demand for it.<\/p>\n The Saipan Country Club also has a new operator with plans to convert the nine-hole golf course behind McDonald\u2019s on Middle Road into another project.<\/p>\n DPL also received $1 million from the Legislature for the land use plan where an RFP is already being ran.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still no update yet on the planned take over of Best Sunshine International, Ltd. on Mariana Resort & Spa\u2019s 161-hectare property in Marpi. Mariana Resort\u2019s lease will expire in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public Lands Secretary Marianne Tergeyo would be leading a multi-agency team that would survey Pagan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[175,1699,14376,3077],"class_list":["post-241070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-dpl","tag-homeland-security","tag-land-registration","tag-mariana-resort-spa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241070","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nCrack down on encroachers<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nOther projects<\/strong><\/p>\n