Hold off implies that they’re just going to try to do it again when they think nobody is looking. That’s still wildly undemocratic and unacceptable. Sorry but “hold off” isn’t good enough, we already determined “fuck off” through consensus. Either the diverters are permanent, or this community defense isn’t finished.
IIRC a lot of the community complaints were that the city was trying to make the decision without enough public input on the decision, in which case pausing the decision to get more public input is exactly what they should be doing. For the exact same reason they shouldn’t just permanently decide to leave it there, if it turns out after a year or two that they aren’t helping and a majority of people want them gone, at that point they absolutely should be taken out. You are right thoigh that the community defense isn’t finished, people that want the diverters to remain absolutely do still need to make themselves known.
Also it should be reminded, that the community already worked on the placement and consensus for these diverters for several years. There was lots of negotiation and buy-in. Everyone knew for a very long time that they were going in. There has already been an exhaustive participatory planning process.
