AS many of our supporters know, Saipan Cares for Animals or SCA was part of a recent Zoning Board public hearing to approve the conditional use application for our property. It was an oversight on our part that the zoning application was not fully completed and approved when we moved our clinic to As Gonno five years ago. At the meeting, we found out that our property is located in a rural commercial zoning district, rather than a residential commercial district as we had thought. Businesses in rural commercial areas are required to operate on a lot which is at least 4000 square meters, and even with the most generous allowance under the law our lot is still significantly too small.