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4.872 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 subpart. 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. Public pedestrian area. Any public sidewalk, alley, plaza, and park, excluding public areas under the primary control of entities other than the city. It also includes public streets during the time streets are closed to vehicular traffic for a city-sponsored or permitted event. Street entertainer. Three or fewer persons conducting, presenting, participating in musical, theatrical, cinematic, choreographic or athletic performances to an audience of not more than twenty-four persons. Written material. Any literature, pamphlet, packaging or similar material intended to communicate any message through writing. ¢) Downtown Activity Zone - Prohibited Acts. Except when approved as part of an authorized activity, the following acts are prohibited in the public pedestrian areas within the downtown activity zone: (a) Interfering with an authorized activity. (b) Impeding access to any public pedestrian area or to any public or private building adjacent to the public pedestrian area. (c) Engaging in a commercial pursuit, except for personal solicitation and street entertainment. (d) Placing a display. (e) Except as provided in section 3.344(4)(c), conducting or participating in the conduct of any activity which is likely to attract at any one time an assembly of over 25 people. (f) Placing a newspaper dispenser: 1. Within ten feet of a street corner; 2. Within one foot of a street curb; 3. Within one foot of, or connected or affixed by any means to, a sidewalk fixture, such as a light pole, bicycle rack, planter, bench or art work; 4. Except with the permission of the person in charge of the building, between the central traveled portion of the adjacent sidewalk and any window abutting a public pedestrian area; or 5. Within the central traveled portion of the sidewalk or in any other location likely to impede pedestrian traffic. (g) Setting up or operating a public address system or other amplified sound equipment. Ordinance - 5