{"id":2458962,"date":"2020-05-28T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=326620"},"modified":"2020-05-29T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T13:48:18","slug":"aspen-pitkin-county-business-will-open-on-rolling-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-pitkin-county-business-will-open-on-rolling-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen, Pitkin County business will open on \u2018rolling\u2019 basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/cover-atw-040920-31-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>High Q store manager Leah Thomas puts on a bandana and gloves for health safety before opening at noon in Snowmass Village Mall on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.<\/strong><br \/><em>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Each week for the next month, Pitkin County will allow a new group of businesses to open under guidelines meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The schedule began Wednesday, with the opening of restaurants and lodging at 50% capacity. The next group of businesses will be allowed to open June 1, with those that follow coming each Monday in June, said Kara Silbernagel, who oversees projects for the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cEvery week we will do these rolling openings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The schedule for reopening, which is posted along with already available guidelines under the \u201cCOVID-19\u201d section of Pitkin County\u2019s website, so far looks like this:<\/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\">\u2022 June 1 \u2014 Summer day camps, playgrounds, skate parks, outfitters and guides;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">\u2022 June 8 \u2014 Gyms, fitness centers, recreation centers, ice rinks, places of worship;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">\u2022 June 15 \u2014 Movie theaters, performance theaters, and passenger capacity on public transport will be re-evaluated;<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText ListBullet\">\u2022 June 22 \u2014 Events with up to 50 people will begin to be allowed with a permit from city or county authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sector-specific guidelines will be available to businesses on the Friday before the Monday they are allowed to open, Silbernagle said. Pitkin County\u2019s \u201cCOVID-19\u201d website contains clickable \u201cguidelines by sector\u201d buttons that will provide the information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While Pitkin County\u2019s state-sanctioned variance allowed group sizes up to 50 people, such gatherings will only be allowed by permit from the city of Aspen or Pitkin County. Such gatherings must also file a COVID-19 safety plan with Pitkin County Public Health, said County Manager Jon Peacock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Informal gatherings of people must still be kept to 10 or fewer, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The state of Colorado granted a variance to Pitkin County last weekend allowing officials to implement their own \u201cRoadmap to Reopening.\u201d County public health officials and business representatives have been coming up with the sector-specific opening guidelines, Silbernagel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The continued easing of public health order restrictions is contingent on a commitment by both residents and visitors alike to continue to make efforts to prevent spread of the virus, Peacock said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That includes practicing good hygiene, observing social distancing protocols, wearing facemasks inside all publicly-accessible buildings and outside when within 6 feet of people for more than 10 minutes, he said. In addition, those with COVID-19 symptoms must isolate themselves, contact their doctor immediately and go to Aspen Valley Hospital to be tested, Peacock said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:jauslander@aspentimes.com\">jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-pitkin-county-business-will-open-on-rolling-basis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Q store manager Leah Thomas puts on a bandana and gloves for health safety before opening at noon in Snowmass Village Mall on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Each week for the next month, Pitkin County will allow a new group of businesses to open under guidelines meant to prevent the spread [&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-2458962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 05:25:02","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\/2458962","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=2458962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458972,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458962\/revisions\/2458972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}