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• Village Council settles first-of-year business

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 13, 2024

  

  At the group’s first meeting of the year, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, Village Council took their seats with new membership.

• 2023 In Review | Government

  By YS News StaffJanuary 5, 2024

  

  Local, township, county and state legislation and actions were extensive in 2023.

• Village Council | Utility Round-Up now ‘opt-out’

  By Reilly DixonDecember 29, 2023

  

  At the group’s most recent meeting Monday, Dec. 18, Village Council voted to automatically enroll all municipal utility customers in the Village’s Utility Round-Up program.

• Planning Commission broaches changes to Airbnb rules

  By Reilly DixonDecember 27, 2023

  

  At the group’s most recent meeting on Thursday, Dec. 14, the Village Planning Commission considered the possibility of loosening regulations on the 42 registered — and future — Airbnbs in Yellow Springs.

• New utility-scale solar project proposed for Greene County

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2023

  

  The proposed project, tentatively called the Aviation Energy Center, comes after the December 2022 Ohio Power Siting Board, or OPSB, denial of Vesper’s previously planned 1,500-acre, 175 MW utility-scale Kingwood solar project, which was also slated to be located in Greene County.

• Village Council says ‘no’ to housing on CBE land, for now

  By Reilly DixonDecember 18, 2023

  

  On Monday, Dec. 4, Village Council continued the ongoing discussion of pursuing a plan that could culminate in the construction of a low-income housing development on the 35-acre land known as the CBE.

• Zoning Inspector Richard Zopf terminated from position

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 14, 2023

  

  During the most recent regular meeting of the Miami Township Board of Trustees on Monday, Dec. 4, longtime Zoning Inspector Richard Zopf was terminated from his position, which he’s held for 24 years.

• Village Council | Utility Round-Up program to be opt-out

  By Reilly DixonDecember 11, 2023

  

  Yellow Springs residents may soon be automatically enrolled in the Village’s Utility Round-Up program — wherein municipal utility customers round up their monthly bill to the nearest dollar, with the additional amount going to help those struggling to pay their bills.

• Concerns over bar noise grow louder

  By Reilly DixonDecember 4, 2023

  

  At the most recent Village Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 20, members of the Dayton-Walnut Streets Neighborhood Action Group — knowingly and facetiously abbreviated to NAG — called for greater oversight from the Village of the downtown noise.

• Village Council discusses low-income housing on CBE land

  By Reilly DixonNovember 30, 2023

  

  The perennial conversation of what to do with the 35 acres of land on the western edge of Yellow Springs — known as the Center for Business and Education, or CBE — resurfaced at the most recent Village Council meeting on Monday, Nov. 20.