The city just announced it’s completed a survey of the boundaries at Thomas Square park, possibly setting the stage for a showdown with the Occupy Honolulu protesters camped out there.

Here’s the entirety of the terse statement:

Mayor Peter Carlisle today announced that the City has completed a survey to definitively establish the boundaries of Thomas Square so that they are clear to everyone.

The area within the boundaries will be closed from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am each night, as is the case with most City and County of Honolulu parks. A few people have remained along the edges of the square after closure, as its exact boundaries were not clearly delineated.

The survey established that several paths and benches along the square’s periphery are within its boundaries, which extend approximately to the sidewalk surrounding the square.

The survey was done today, according to Jim Fulton, executive assistant to Carlisle. It comes on the heels of the new city law that bans personal belongings from public spaces like parks and sidewalks. There’s a 24-hour limit in some places, but belongings can’t be stored in parks overnight.

“The parks are for everybody,” he told Civil Beat when asked about what the survey means for enforcement. “We respect the First Amendment rights of everybody, but we will follow the law. … The law is the law. We will enforce the law.”

About a dozen tents were arranged at the corner of Ward and Beretania as recently as Wednesday night. Occupiers might think they’re on the sidewalk because they’re set up on concrete, the survey seems to imply they’re actually in the park and can be evicted as soon as tonight.

Asked if the city has imminent plans to clear the park tonight, Fulton said he did not know.