Mahalo Denby Fawcett and Civil Beat for shining some light on this issue. The Parks and Recs guy Chris Dacus says, "the city held more than 30 meetings since 2013 to inform the public about its plans to modernize the park," but of those, 13 were open to the public, and nine of those were just brief presentations at Neighborhood Board Meetings. That leaves only four meetings that were open to the public. Not only was I at every single one of those meetings, I livestreamed and recorded each one. I can tell you that although Dacus doesn't disclose the public response to the plan, the public attitude was very negative and included a rather terse two-word response from at least one member of the public. 

So I'm glad Mayor Caldwell is feeling the heat -- I mean "tapping the breaks." Since it's his plan, I'm wondering what the other mayoral candidates feel. It's become an election issue.