Operation Paint Over --- How do we want to deal with graffiti in our community?

This will be our second meeting. If you didn't get a chance to join us the first time, please come ---we are still very much in the planning stages.

When: Monday, August 31st, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Where: Whispering Palms School at Navy Hill (park where you can and look for sign on the door)

Agenda/Objectives:

1. Review meeting minutes from prior meeting.
2. Share ideas (3-mins so we can give everyone a chance and allow time for discussion)
3. Report from Victor on Zoning village meetings.
4. Consider next steps:

• Developing a stakeholder list by village; dividing up the list and begin making contact to bring those people into the discussion (Crime Stoppers, Neighborhood Watch)


• Plan out how to achieve a photo journal of the existing graffiti issues village by village


• Assign one person to attend each of the remaining village-by-village Zoning meetings so that we can inquire about "graffiti" in that village
  
  

5. Confirm next meeting date/time/location - Monday, Sept 14th, 5:30p, Whispering Palms School at Navy Hill

The principle concept is to follow the Beautify CNMI established style of getting things done. We build a coalition, share resources where we can and support individual(s) and/or group(s) that have an action plan.

Note: Current organizational partners already committed include Rotary Club of Saipan and Island SK8 Society.

Questions can be directed to Laurie Peterka (483-7499) laurie.peterka@saipan.com or Tyler Yoshimoto at tyler_yosh@hotmail.com

See or forward our FaceBook event link at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122455452421&ref=mf

Zoning Workshop

The Zoning Office will present a workshop to educate the development community about the Saipan Zoning Law. The workshop will be held at the Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe from 8 am to noon on Thursday, August 2. Please contact the Zoning Office to reserve space at the workshop.

Phone: 670-234-9663

Mail: PMB 861, PO Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950

E-mail: staff@zoning.gov.mp

You can download the Saipan Zoning Law, the Zoning Map and other materials at:

www.zoning.gov.mp

Call To Attend The Village Zoning Meetings

On March 4, I (Rep. Cinta Kaipat) attended the first of a series of village zoning meetings at the Multi-Purpose Complex. The meetings are necessary to allow residents a voice in the Zoning Board's current efforts to put together a Comprehensive Land-Use Plan. In its first meeting, I was disappointed in the low turnout of residents from the villages of Koblerville and San Antonio. Other than the 5 Zoning Board members and staff, I counted only 14 participants, including a couple cabinet members.Zoning Chairman Henry HofschneiderZoning Board Executive Director Steve Tilly and Chairman Henry HofschneiderZoning Board members Dr. Liz Rechebei, Herminia Fusco, and Sid Cabrera

Residents, now is the time to help shape our communities. Do not waste this opportunity to help improve our villages. How about those sidewalks that need to be built for safety so our kids don't have to walk in the streets and get hit by a car? How about zoning out pokers, junk cars, and the tire shops, etc. out of residential areas? How about laws that keep garment factories and other large factories from being built in residential areas? How about laws that restrict extensions built too close to the roads, thereby posing safety hazards? These are just a few concerns that the Zoning Board needs to hear from each of you!
L-R: Ray Mafnas, Dr. John Joyner, Rep. Cinta Kaipat, Rep. Joe Guerrero, and other participants