Item A: Downtown Public Safety Zone

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City manager. The city manager or the city manager’s designee. City-sponsored event. An activity carried out by a city employee in the performance of assigned duties or an activity authorized by the city manager or city council to use the city's name. Commercial pursuits. Any activity related to or connected with trade, commerce or fund raising involving the receipt of money or property, such as, but not limited to: advertising, displaying, distributing, selling, taking orders or offering to sell or take orders for goods or services; providing a place for customers to sit; fund raising activities; activities, events, and performances for which admission is charged; activities related to construction or demolition on abutting private premises. Display. Visual portrayals or physical objects affixed to or standing upon public property within the downtown activity zone, including but not limited to signs, pictures, markers, inscriptions, and objects that are inanimate or mechanically or electronically animated but which remain stationary in location. Downtown activity permit. A permit applied for and issued in accordance with section 3.341 of this code. Downtown activity zone. Publicly-owned property and rights-of-way located within the area bounded by the centerlines of Sixth Avenue, Lincoln Street, Eleventh Avenue, and High Street, including all public improvements located therein. Downtown core. Publicly-owned property and rights-of-way located within the area bounded by a line that runs from the intersection of 10 Avenue and Pearl Street, north to 8 Avenue, west on 8 Avenue to ththth Lincoln Street, south on Lincoln Street to 10 Avenue, east on 10 Avenue to Charnelton Street, south on thth Charnelton Street to 11 Avenue, east on 11 Avenue to Willamette Street, north on Willamette Street to thth 10 Avenue, and east on 10 Avenue to Pearl Street, including sidewalks on both sides of the streets and thth avenues that define the area and all public improvements located therein. Fund raising. Actions which directly or indirectly request anything of value from persons with whom the requestor has not been previously associated as a family member, friend or companion, and the resulting proceeds are given to a person, entity or organization other than the person engaged in the fund raising activity. “Fund raising” does not include personal solicitation. Impede. To prevent progress or movement, or to engage in an activity that would deter a reasonable person from progressing or moving in the area of the activity. Interferes with. A person "interferes with" an authorized activity if that person does one or more of the following: (a) Enters in or upon and uses an area of the downtown activity zone which has been reserved for an authorized activity for a purpose other than in accordance with the authorized use; (b) Engages in conduct which imminently threatens to cause or causes a speaker or performer to cease speaking or performing or threatens to cause or causes an audience to be unable to hear the speaker or performer(s); (c) Except when viewing or participating in an authorized activity, engages in conduct within 20 feet of an authorized activity which prevents reasonable people with normal sensitivities participating in the properly authorized activity from carrying on a normal conversation. Newspaper dispenser. A box or other vending device that displays, holds or dispenses newspapers, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, newsletters or other written materials to the public, with or without requiring payment, and is intended to remain stationary in location. Noise disturbance. A noise disturbance which is plainly audible to two or more persons who are located within a room with all windows and doors to the outside shut which is in a building open for business and is located within the boundaries of or is abutting the downtown core. The definitions of section 4.080(1) of this code shall apply to this definition. Permittee. Includes any person designated as the applicant in the application for the downtown activity permit and any employee, agent, representative or volunteer assisting with an authorized activity. Page 10 of 16