After hours of public comment during Lafayette's City Council meeting on Monday night, city leaders unanimously approved making significant changes to one of its baseball fields.

The city owns four fields, of which Lafayette Little League had been leasing two fields for the past 21 years. With the expiration of the lease back in August, the Lafayette Moraga Youth Association (LMYA) had been fighting for access to one of the League's fields: Chaney Field.

"Relieved and happy and thrilled for the girls in our community that the city council did the right thing and the lawful thing, and stood up for what's right and equity to give these girls access to playing softball more in the city," Rachel Leonard, the softball commissioner of the LMYA, told CBS News Bay Area.

Currently, LMYA has acce

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