The children's sports organization agrees to invest $4 million to expand recreation facilities at Audubon Park's river view area, The Fly.

Uptown Messenger reports that the group is planning a sports complex for soccer, lacrosse and flag football at the park. The project will also include a new playground and a new pavilion with concession stands, bathrooms, and a meeting area for teams.

Word starts to spread about the $4 million project, and opposition builds. The Facebook group Save the Fly NOLA forms, which becomes a forum for those who think the public's opinion was not taken into account in this project and are concerned about a recreation space disappearing. The group plans a picnic and protest at the Fly.

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The meeting serves mostly for attendees to vent frustrations; City Council admits there's nothing they can do to stop the complex. Council members did, however, chastise the Audubon Commission for "failing to be more proactive in the way they reached out to the public before they approved the project," according to The Advocate.

This is a tremendous project that fills a great need for our children & maintains perfect land use balance 4 the Fly https://t.co/ie0Muph2k7

— Drew Brees (@drewbrees) February 17, 2016

Brees, along with Tom and Gayle Benson and companies Tabasco and Iberia Bank, are some of the financial backers of the Carrollton Boosters complex.

Supporters and opponents of the project are producing maps that differ in illustrating how much of the Fly the complex will occupy; Carrollton Boosters say the complex will take up 2.5 acres; opponents say it will be more like six. The discrepancy? Each side is using a different definition of "open space."

The project is on hold until both sides are able to discuss the project further.

Opponents of the sports complex request an interim zoning district for the Fly, which would make development at the riverview park subject to the approval of the City Planning Commission and City Council.

Both sides of the issue come up with a compromise plan, which would move the artificial-turf field at the heart of the complex farther away from the riverfront area popular for gatherings.

A big supporter of the project say it's dead for now. R.I.P., Carrollton Boosters sports complex.