The Banning Ranch Conservancy has entered the fray over a proposed parking lot at Fairview Park.
Terry Welsh, president of the Newport Beach-based environmental group, urged recipients in a weekend email to attend Costa Mesa's City Council meeting Tuesday to protest the plan, which calls for 10 parking spaces and a nearby children's play area at the north end of Pacific Avenue.
He outlined four arguments against the development, saying the lot isn't needed and that park-goers would end up possibly "trudging across an area of high biological sensitivity."