Sounds like a reasonable time and notice to me.

If we really want them to change any laws or regulations a petition should be started. It would be hard to get 300, 400, a thousand, 5 thousand people to actively show up for meetings and meet with the fire department or parks department. But collecting signatures at least says that while these people cant make it this is an issue that concerns a lot of people not just the small group of faces they constantly see.

Now is the time to get your petition put together also. Not a lot of people are going to know about the open flame thing and tonight is going to happen a lot like a normal Sunday night until cops or some other presence shows up. Have a petition for people to sign would 1. give them a warning and a heads up before getting a ticket, and 2. Give them some form of outlet other then just yelling at the police.

My suggestion take your write up of the amendments to the open flam law then add the sentence "I support this amendment." and collect peoples name, signatures, and phone numbers. If you get a good wording of it set up also I can take your petition lay it out in PDF and host it on my web space so people can download copies of it get signatures for you and then mail them to the shed.