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easements dedicated to the Pepe`ekeo Association are suddenly missing from that plan, and they're now missing from the final subdivision plan. And you can see that, because I have both of them here if nobody else does. I can show you where they're missing, where they were, and then where they were missing. And the problem I'm having is that final subdivision, wait, excuse me, that revised preliminary subdivision plan that was accepted by the County dated October of 2002, I think it was 2002, it was missing from the file this whole time. There was a note in the file saying this plan is missing. And I've asked for it and asked for it and asked for it. I finally wrote and got it, but guess where it was, in the Planning Director's office, I believe. There's a problem with public information. It's often in the Planning Director's office and unavailable. So how would the Pepe`ekeo Association even know that had been taken off the preliminary plan? Okay, point made. Signage. They submitted their version of what the signage shoul reads that night fishing is according to the Planning Department's rules or according to the Planning Department's something or other. It doesn't give a phone number, you know, it doesn't identify who's administering the night fishing. I think that there should be a large sign, and I'm concerned with the size of it, the size of the letters, and I think it should invite people to use the public access, and it should not be on a fence where there's a gate with a no trespassing sign. I think a locked gate's a locked gate, and there can be a small sign saying this gate's locked on purpose and, you know, use the public access to the right, but if people drive down a road and see no trespassing on the gate, they're not going to look to the right and see the little sign that says, you know, come in. The other thing is that those small blue signs that direct you down to the shoreline, and they should be placed along the roadways so that you know that you have a -, that public access, you turn left here or you turn right here. Then there should be one leading down to the parking area. And the other thing is is I couldn't find any pins marking the parking areas. The subdivider wa supposed to have everything pinned at the final subdivision approval stage, and I've never been able to actually find any pins to know where to park my car, so I'm curious whether it's actually been surveyed. Okay, so that's general signage. Number -, the other issue is there's an SMA 221 for the Hilo Coast Power Company's parcel, Parcel 53. That also -, that SMA started in 1985 or 6 and then they came in to revise it in '95 or 6, and the way that reads is that even though they've revised it and there's new conditions, they still have to abide by the conditions of the first permit. I'm suggesting here that since you're now going to be reviewing an SMA for the same area, that you be careful that you don't have a conflicting document that would conflict with SMA 221 and have different conditions, and that you refer to those other conditions and make the -, and keep the In SMA 221 conditions is that the public is to be provided access to the shoreline. That was never done formally. Well, here we are again reviewing an SMA and also a proposal to rezone from Industrial to Residential, and I believe they are planning on putting a couple of residential lots, but I don't see any public access to the shoreline formalized. So again, it seems to me that this is the opportunity to realize that Parcel 53 has an obligation to provide shoreline access. 10