the Ordinance is constitutional “[b]ecause the Flag Ordinance is reasonab ther government property should be made available for protected expressive activity ..., we apply different levels of protection for different types of government property.” News & Observer Publ’g Co. v. Raleigh-Durham Airport Auth., 597 F.3d 570, 577 (4th Cir.2010). First, public forums have been defined by the Supreme Court as “places which by long tradition or by government flat have been devoted to assembly and debate,” and they are subject to stringent First Amendment protection. Perry Educ. Ass’n v. Perry Local Educators’ Ass’n, 460 U.S. 37, 45-46, 103 S.Ct. 948, 74 L.Ed.2d 794 (1983); see also Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc., 473 U.S. 788, 817, 105 S.Ct. 3439, 87 L.Ed.2d 567 (1985) (<HOLDING>). A governmental restriction on speech in a
recognizing that abutting property owners have certain private rights in existing streets and highways in addition to their right in common with the general public to use them recognizing that public utilities affect the public interest in that they render essential public services to a large number of the general public holding in the context of picketing on a matter of public concern that residential streets are traditional public fora uninhibited robust and wideopen debate on public issues strikes at the core of the first amendment id at 479 108 sct at 2499 recognizing the public interest exception recognizing parks streets and sidewalks as quintessential public forums