WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:04.7450000" NOTE recognizability:0.853 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.163 T - 46 days until Super Bowl NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:02.163 --> 00:00:03.979 57 takes over the valley. NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:05.630 And if you were planning to NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:05.630 --> 00:00:07.178 capitalize on the big game NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:07.178 --> 00:00:08.746 with marketing or advertising, NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:08.750 --> 00:00:10.400 well, you're going to have to NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.240 ask the NFL for permission. NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:13.512 That's right, Team 12, NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:13.512 --> 00:00:15.420 Bianca Bono breaks down a new NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:15.420 --> 00:00:17.415 clean Zone policy and learns why some NOTE Confidence: 0.8347732 00:00:17.415 --> 00:00:19.880 folks say it violates freedom of speech. NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:22.770 --> 00:00:25.730 Soon to be home to the Super Bowl, NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:25.730 --> 00:00:28.320 the streets of downtown Phoenix are primed, NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.280 ready to be packed with people come February. NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.500 And with hosting the most watched NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:35.720 annual sporting event in the world, NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:35.720 --> 00:00:37.570 the Valley is expecting a NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:37.570 --> 00:00:39.790 big time economic boost. Certainly this NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:39.790 --> 00:00:41.640 is a huge financial opportunity. NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:43.860 The question is who's an opportunity NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:43.860 --> 00:00:46.002 for? Attorney John Thorpe with the NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:46.002 --> 00:00:48.584 Goldwater Institute says a new city of NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:48.584 --> 00:00:50.762 Phoenix policy is squashing Super Bowl NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:50.762 --> 00:00:52.890 opportunity for business owners downtown. NOTE Confidence: 0.8387186 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:55.180 Like his client Bramley pollen, the idea NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:00:55.180 --> 00:00:57.175 is they want to protect the NFL NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:00:57.175 --> 00:00:59.100 and its sponsors from competition. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:00.978 They've also come out and said NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:00.978 --> 00:01:03.029 that they don't want any messages NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:03.030 --> 00:01:04.986 that are disfavorable to the NFL. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:04.990 --> 00:01:06.620 Paulin, who owns property downtown, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:06.620 --> 00:01:08.811 was planning to capitalize on the big NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:08.811 --> 00:01:11.197 crowds and lease out land to advertisers. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.321 But the city has designated this area NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:13.321 --> 00:01:15.449 around downtown a so-called clean zone, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:17.739 meaning from January 15th to February 19th, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:17.740 --> 00:01:20.356 if you want to put up any signage, NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:20.360 --> 00:01:23.384 you have to ask the city and the NFL. NOTE Confidence: 0.8477011 00:01:23.390 --> 00:01:24.488 For permission first, NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:24.490 --> 00:01:26.680 the blatant restriction on free speech. NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:28.876 It's also a delegation of government NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:28.876 --> 00:01:30.710 power to private corporations. The NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:30.710 --> 00:01:33.272 city declined 12 news request for an NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:33.272 --> 00:01:34.944 interview, but spokesperson Dan Wilson NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:34.944 --> 00:01:36.900 said the city is working closely NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:36.956 --> 00:01:39.021 with local businesses to provide NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:39.021 --> 00:01:40.673 them information and assistance NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:40.673 --> 00:01:41.835 surrounding the opportunities NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:41.835 --> 00:01:43.570 presented by the increased number NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:43.570 --> 00:01:45.673 of people in the downtown area. NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:45.673 --> 00:01:48.130 Clean zones aren't a new idea for NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.474 host cities, often requested by the NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:50.474 --> 00:01:53.328 NFL ahead of the Super Bowl, but Thorpe. NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:53.328 --> 00:01:55.302 As if Phoenix doesn't back down NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:55.302 --> 00:01:56.270 from their ban, NOTE Confidence: 0.88923806 00:01:56.270 --> 00:01:57.770 the Goldwater Institute will sue. NOTE Confidence: 0.825766 00:01:57.770 --> 00:01:59.706 We hope that they do the right thing NOTE Confidence: 0.825766 00:01:59.706 --> 00:02:01.715 and allow people to speak freely NOTE Confidence: 0.825766 00:02:01.715 --> 00:02:03.187 and exercise their constitutional NOTE Confidence: 0.825766 00:02:03.190 --> 00:02:04.745 rights. Pianca Bono, 12 news.