{"id":2458805,"date":"2020-05-24T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/state-grants-variances-for-garco-churches-gyms-eateries-to-open-at-half-capacity\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:48:00","slug":"state-grants-variances-for-garco-churches-gyms-eateries-to-open-at-half-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/state-grants-variances-for-garco-churches-gyms-eateries-to-open-at-half-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"State grants variances for GarCo churches, gyms, eateries to open at half-capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Restaurants, fitness facilities and gyms can immediately reopen at half capacity after the state approved a variance request Saturday from Garfield County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In a news release, the county states businesses must still meet social distancing requirements as detailed in the variance requests:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">Restaurants<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">Places of worship<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">Fitness facilities<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">Recreation<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">Outfitters<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf a restaurant, house of worship, fitness facility, gym, outdoor recreation or outfitter business would like to take advantage of the new variance, they need to submit a Garfield County business social distancing form,\u201d said Carrie Godes, Garfield County Public Health Specialist, in an email Sunday. \u201cEven if they have previously submitted a social distancing form, the variance requires that they resubmit a new form agreeing to the new social distancing recommendations and guidance required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Retail businesses that were already allowed to reopen do not need to resubmit social distancing plans as the variance does not apply to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Instead, those retail businesses can continue to operate as they have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Additionally, businesses do not need to wait to hear back from county public health concerning their submitted social distancing plans in order to reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to Godes, Garfield County Public Health will review their plans and only be in contact if there are any additional questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Social distancing forms for those businesses can be filled out and submitted at garfield-county.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAfter submitting a new form, each business should print their plan and display a copy of completion,\u201d Godes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Five of six variance requests were granted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The only request not granted was to reopen large tourist attractions, such as the hot springs and Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe request to reopen large tourist attractions was not approved, but will be re-evaluated June 1,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jessica and Kevin Grenier, who co-own Anytime Fitness just south of Glenwood Springs, said they were looking forward to reopening their gym possibly as early as midnight Monday after being closed for more than two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe sent out an email notification to all of our members,\u201d Kevin Grenier said. \u201cWe have lots of square footage, which makes social distancing very easy. We have a lot of room to spread out equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">More information \u201cwill follow, with details to further clarify the approved variance in the next few days,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For more information, contact Garfield County Public Health at 970-625-5200 extension 8120 or <a href=\"mailto:publichealthinfo@garfield.county.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publichealthinfo@garfield.county.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/state-grants-variances-for-garco-churches-gyms-eateries-to-open-at-half-capacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants, fitness facilities and gyms can immediately reopen at half capacity after the state approved a variance request Saturday from Garfield County. In a news release, the county states businesses must still meet social distancing requirements as detailed in the variance requests: Restaurants Places of worship Support Local Journalism Donate Fitness facilities Recreation Outfitters \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 08:22:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}