Kenning eyed for baseball, dog park

Birmingham's Kenning, one of the cities busier parks, may get baseball and dogs.

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The Parks & Recreation Board approved a resolution Tuesday urging the City Commission to adopt a master plan for Kenning Park at Lincoln Road and Eton. Part of the resolution also endorses a concept plan brought forward by the Birmingham Little League and Brother Rice High School to reconfigure the four baseball fields at Kenning and add new amenities to the park.

Under that scenario, the two groups would pay for the new fields and finance some of the other improvements. In return, the Brother Rice baseball team could use one of the diamonds as its home field from March through June. The Little League would have use of the other three fields.

Another option on the table is to eliminate one of the four fields and convert it into a dog park.

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