Bowling Green City Council Monday night unanimously rejected a proposed distracted driving ordinance that
had drawn heavy criticism.
Rather than withdraw it as had been announced, First Ward Council Member Daniel Gordon said he had been
informed that process was not legal. Therefore, council give the ordinance a second and third reading
and unanimously rejected it.
Council also spent an hour listening to several residents unhappy about the imminent demolition of the
Bowling Green State University’s Popular Culture House at 838 E. Wooster St.
The group was interested in any influence council might have to at least delay the plan while talks could
proceed how moving the structure. Several council members suggested Mayor Richard Edwards use his close
association with BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey to intercede. The mayor made no comment.
City Attorney Michael Marsh said the city has no historical preservation laws on the books and state law
prohibits the city from doing anything about how state property is used. He said BGSU is under no
obligation to seek a zoning change to build a health center on the 838 property and two adjacent
properties that were leveled earlier this summer.