COSTA MESA
Dozens of children may lose their stamping grounds if the school district goes ahead with the planned sale of a neighborhood park, residents fear.
For more than 22 years, the city’s recreation department has run a community and day care center in Balearic Park.
Now, as the school district prepares to sell the 9.25-acre property to the highest bidder, community members are banding together to fight the sale.
Residents are afraid of losing that open space to a developer, said Fran Hill, one of several neighbors opposed to the sale.
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