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State v. Castellano, 506 N.W.2d 641 (Minn. App. 1993) ordinance sought to eliminate was "created by the distribution of materials to neighborhood medium of expression itself." Id. at 487, 108 S.Ct. residents, or solicitation by mail or in person. at 2504. Frisby noted that the Brookfield Appellant also argues that the White Bear ordinance was narrowly directed at the ordinance is not tailored narrowly enough to household, not the public, and thus distinguished 4 protect only unwilling listeners in cases which had struck down complete bans of communication such as handbilling, solicitation, Page 648 and marching, which communications were directed at broader residential areas. their homes, and that by extending protection to "occupants" rather than to "residents" the The type of picketers banned by the Brookfield ordinance is unconstitutionally overbroad and ordinance generally do not seek to disseminate a vitiates any possibility of narrow construction. We message to the general public, but to intrude upon disagree. We believe the word "occupant," as used the targeted resident, and to do so in an especially in the ordinance, has a narrower definition than offensive way. 5 appellant urges, and makes the White Bear ordinance no broader than the one held Id. at 486, 108 S.Ct. at 2503. constitutional in Frisby. The White Bear ordinance, like the Brookfield An "occupant" is a person "having possessory ordinance in Frisby, is "readily subject to a rights, who can control what goes on on narrowing construction that avoids constitutional premises." Black's Law Dictionary 1078 (6th ed. difficulties." See id. at 482, 108 S.Ct. at 2501. In 1990). Black's Law Dictionary also defines construing the Brookfield ordinance, the Court "occupant" as "\[o\]ne who has actual use, stated: possession or control of a thing." Id. Webster's \[T\]he use of the singular form of the words defines "occupant" as "residence" and "dwelling" suggests that the one who takes possession of something that has ordinance is intended to prohibit only picketing no other owner and thereby acquires title by focused on, and taking place in front of, a occupancy * * * one who takes possession under particular residence. * * * "Picketing," after all, is title, lease, or tenancy at will * * * one who defined as posting at a particular place, a occupies a particular place or premises \[such as a\] characterization in line with viewing the tenant \[or a\] resident. ordinance as limited to activity focused on a singular residence. Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1560 (1961). Similarly, an "occupant" Id. (emphasis added) (citing Webster's Third is New International Dictionary 1710 (1981) to define picketing as "posting at a particular one that occupies a position or place * * * one who place"). has certain legal rights to or control over the premises occupied. Similarly, Ordinance No. 63 was not intended 2 to circumscribe all "activity," but only activity American Heritage Dictionary of the English constituting picketing in the focused sense. We Language 1251 (3d ed. 1992). interpret the White Bear ordinance in a limited fashion to proscribe only "picketing activity" "Resident," on the other hand, means a focused on or taking place in front of a particular "dweller, habitant or occupant." Black's Law 3 single residential dwelling. See id. So narrowed, Dictionary 1309 (6th ed. 1990). Webster's defines the ordinance would not prohibit constitutional "resident" as "having an abode for a continued