If you want to make people mad, change all the signs at the Honolulu — pardon, the Daniel K. Inouye — International Airport.

It wasn’t that long ago, in 2002, when the airport changed the wording on signs for drivers approaching the terminals. “Departures” and “Arrivals” became “Ticketing” and “Bag Claim.”

OMG. Howls of protest drove flustered airport officials to spend about $140,000 to restore some of the original wording.

Now we are there again, except it won’t just be the wording on a few signs. The Airports Division will rename all of its gates and baggage claims using a new number and letter scheme.

For example, Gate 59 at the Interisland Terminal will become Gate A15 at Terminal 1. Baggage Claim H will display the numbers for each carousel, from 27-31.

The agency will replace about 3,100 signs, supporting structures and other related infrastructure. Total cost: $23 million.

“The new numbering is necessary to accommodate future expansion and additional gates, provide a more efficient means of directing people through the airport property and to deliver an upgraded look to the signage, which hasn’t been updated in more than 25 years,” according to the state Department of Transportation website.

It’s a big job, and isn’t scheduled to be finished until summer 2019.

But don’t worry: You won’t have to wait that long to experience the new system. It will start in 14 days — June 1 — with temporary signs covering up the old ones. To get a more detailed look at the changes, visit http://hidot.hawaii.gov/airports/.

Patience, please. It’ll be all right — we hope.

A good place for an ohana zone?

Will the third time be the charm, when it comes to redeveloping the old Stadium Bowl-O-Drome site in Moiliili? Let’s hope so, for the sake of the many Native Hawaiians awaiting either homesteads or just a solid roof over their heads.

The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, landowner of the vacant 1.9-acre property, is signaling its third try in 16 years to redevelop the site to generate revenues via a private-partnered project of commercial uses, residential rental units, or both.

It’s a downright shame that much discussion over 16 years has failed to yield anything substantial — particularly since some 27,000 Native Hawaiians remain on DHHL’s wait list for homesteads, and, perhaps more urgently, many of Hawaii’s homeless, disproportionately, are Native Hawaiian. Helping them takes action and money.

The bowling alley closed for good in mid-2004. Hopes for monetizing this property have been dashed repeatedly — first in 2002, then in 2006. Now DHHL is preparing a request for developer proposals, possibly for a mixed-use residential building with street-level commercial activity. It anticipates another two years or so just to get through the vetting and feedback process.

Meanwhile, a towing company that had been leasing the land has vacated. So, while DHHL sorts out the site’s long-term future, perhaps in the interim it should look to meet a critical, short-term need. Can we say ohana zone?

Show her a way to Haleiwa home

Land, land everywhere, but not a proper lane to access.

That well could be the lament of Wilma Ward, 71, a Haleiwa resident whose access to the home that’s been in her family for three generations is compromised, sometimes blocked, due to conflicts between two nearby shopping centers. Ward and her family, plus a longtime neighbor, are caught in a road dispute between, on one side, Haleiwa Store Lots, the retail complex developed in 2015 by land giant Kamehameha Schools; and on the other, Haleiwa Town Center, which leases its land from the $9 billion Native Hawaiian trust.

The complicated situation involves, basically, the disappearance of the Wards’ longtime access road, Kewalo Lane, to the Schools’ development. A restaurant was built over the original lane, and today, the Wards and neighbor reach their homes by going through the Store Lots’ parking lot, with one area sometimes blocked by big delivery trucks.

Now Ward is battling brain cancer; last year, after she was found unresponsive in her home, a delivery truck had to be told to move to make way for the ambulance on its way.

Further complicating matters: Haleiwa Town Center, which once allowed the Wards and neighbor to use a lane on its site to access their homes, fenced off that lane after the Store Lots opened.

Surely, co-existence solutions exist: perhaps replace that fence with an electronic arm that allows entry only to the homeowners; and/or start fining delivery trucks that block the Wards’ accessway in violation of clear signage. For Kamehameha Schools, taking the lead on a solution would seem a small price to pay, literally and figuratively, compared to prolonged legal action; the Town Center also should compromise. It’s simply the pono thing to do.