BG landlord's lawsuit against city will proceed

A Wood County judge has refused to dismiss a Bowling Green landlord's lawsuit against city officials.

The suit, filed by the owner of Brentwood Estates LLC, claims that city officials conducted stealth searches of tenants' mailboxes in order to obtain information about occupancy in the rental units as part of the city's crackdown on Bowling Green's maximum occupancy law.

You can read about the ruling that the lawsuit will be allowed to proceed here in the Toledo Blade, which reports that Bowling Green's maximum occupancy law has been on the books since 1975, but has been more strictly enforced only in the past few years. The law states that a maximum of three unrelated persons may live together in one residential unit in neighborhoods that are zoned single-family residential.