Republican National Convention Spring Walk-Through

Officials on Wednesday will announce a slew of special restrictions that will apply during the upcoming Republican National Convention.

(Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland officials on Wednesday morning will announce a slew of special, temporary regulations for the upcoming Republican National Convention.

Mayor Frank Jackson, Ronald Rowe, a Secret Service agent who's overseeing security for the GOP convention, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams and Richard Horvath, a top city attorney, are scheduled to address the media at 9:45 a.m. at City Hall, according to a Tuesday news release.

They will disclose the city's official protest routes and the location of a speaker's platform for protesters, as well as special rules for park use and within the "event zone" -- likely the city's name for a secondary security area outside the hard "security perimeter" that will surround Quicken Loans Arena, but within downtown -- during the GOP convention.

The Board of Control, a panel of Jackson aides, is then scheduled to consider approving the regulations at a 10:30 a.m. meeting.

The convention is scheduled for July 18-21, and is expected to result in a number of road closures, heightened security and other changes. It's expected to attract upwards of 50,000 people, plus a significant number of protesters.

The city has received applications from at least eight groups planning to protest the event. The Ohio ACLU last Thursday threatened to sue if the city didn't act upon the protest applications before July 1.

City officials have said they wouldn't be able to act on protest applications until official protest routes were set.