{"id":6253,"date":"2012-03-27T01:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2012-03-27T01:28:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:28:35","slug":"zoning-to-map-out-next-course-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/zoning-to-map-out-next-course-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoning to map out next course of action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<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&#8217;m 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&#8217;s action, Ogumoro said, \u201cI&#8217;m happy that the bill was vetoed by the governor. I&#8217;m happy knowing that it&#8217;s the right thing for our island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for our next move, we&#8217;re 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>By Clarissa David Reporter Zoning staff and board members are set to convene next week&#8230;<\/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-6253","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\/6253","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=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}