{"id":295016,"date":"2019-03-06T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295016"},"modified":"2019-03-06T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:00:46","slug":"apatangs-office-pivots-to-street-numbering-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/apatangs-office-pivots-to-street-numbering-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatang\u2019s office pivots  to street  numbering,  mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_295017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295017\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/David-Apatang-pix2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-295017\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apatang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office announced yesterday that it would be working with an engineering firm to continue the street numbering and mapping project on Saipan, 31 years after the passage of the law that mandates it.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Street Directory Commission project is finally moving forward, with the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office working with engineering company Henry K. Pangelinan and Associates LLC to revive the street numbering and mapping on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the commission consists of the Saipan mayor, the Department of Public Works secretary, the Department of Public Safety commissioner, and the Department of Public Lands secretary, and is responsible for developing a Saipan street, name, and numbering map.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will benefit a lot of people in the community,\u201d said Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang yesterday in a press conference at the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office conference room, adding that it would be especially beneficial to emergency services and postal services personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to take about six to seven months and cost about $64,000. <\/p>\n<p>The finished product, according to Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office chief of staff Henry Hofschneider, would include GPS mapping, or global positioning system, a way to digitally access the map on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The numbering of lots as well as many other required information would require a lot of survey work. Because of that requirement, Apatang asks for the community\u2019s patience and cooperation for any survey-work that may be done on private property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking the public to please work with us if you see [Pangelinan\u2019s] crew,\u201d said Apatang, adding that the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office would be furnishing these personnel with special badges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now in the\u2026street numbering [phase]. The time to do this is about six to seven months altogether,\u201d said Henry Pangelinan, the owner of the engineering firm, at the press briefing. He said his team has already done the mapping for the project.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pangelinan, the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation already approved the street names. Altogether, he said, the delegation already made 24 changes to the street names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office announced yesterday that it would be working with an engineering firm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":295017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295016","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}