Village Council
A Village map shows 43 active transient guest lodging locations across town, including five commercial hotels/B&Bs, with the remaining Airbnbs for short-term stays. Both Council and Planning Commission are considering restrictions to Airbnbs to limit their number in a single neighborhood and to deter non-owner occupied establishments. (Data: Village of Yellow Springs)
Council closer to Airbnb rules
Those who run local Airbnbs or other businesses that offer short-term stays could soon be paying more to the Village some a lot more.
Village Council considered new legislation at its April 19 virtual meeting requiring new certificate fees for operators of transient guest lodging, or TGLs, with the most significant increases aimed at those who do not live at the property they rent out.
Tornichio appointed to common pleas general division
Tornichio
XENIA Adolfo Tornichio has added to his already long history of public service.
The current Greene County Juvenile Court judge was appointed to the court’s general division and will preside in Court Room No. 2, replacing Judge Michael Buckwalter, who was elected to fill retired-Judge Stephen A. Wolaver’s seat on the bench.
Gov. Mike DeWine announced the appointment Friday after considering Tornichio and two other candidates Mark Donatelli and Christopher Beck.
“I do have to say this, whether it was as an assistant prosecutor or mayor’s court village prosecutor, or acting law director for the City of Xenia, or being in private practice it does give me a unique understanding of the law, and in the last five years as juvenile judge, it’s given me a unique understanding of how the judicial system impacts the people that come before the court but (also) our communities,” Tornichio said. “I am very excit