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Zoning outreach set for Monday
The Saipan Zoning Office is encouraging the public to attend one of its many outreach activities this Monday, May 5, at the Chacha Oceanview Junior High School.
The outreach will be scheduled along with the Parent Teach Student Association meeting and will discuss both the intricacies of the Saipan Zoning Law of 2013 and the school events for all Kagman schools. It will start at 6pm.
Zoning administrator Therese Ogumoro said they will be doing many of these outreach activities in schools. She said the last outreach was at Saipan Southern High School. Monday’s outreach is for all Kagman schools that also include Kagman High School and COJHS.
“We want to address and gain the public’s understanding, to educate them more about the changes in the law, and we would like to hear their concerns and that is our main aim this year,” Ogumoro said.
Zoning will start implementing the law and providing outreach is part of the office’s way of reaching out to residents and businesses.
“We are trying to go one by one,” Ogumoro said.
Zoning has jurisdiction over all development on construction buildings, both residential and commercial. Zoning is also in charge of land use in particular zoning districts. They also regulate signs, public nuisances that include junk cars, damaged and hazardous buildings, regulation of non-conforming structures built prior to February 2008, as well as parking, general building designs, landscape, lightings for parking, and street lights.
Zoning planner Maryann Arriola said they want to inform as many people as possible about the new zoning law during their outreaches.
“The purpose of the presentation is to inform residents and businesses about the Saipan Zoning Law of 2013 and to educate them on the law,” Arriola said.
According to Ogumoro, Zoning has also started its islandwide inspections.
Arriola characterized these inspections as courtesy calls on all residents and businesses throughout Saipan that the Zoning law is being administered and that people need to learn about it.
