Update from Kate
SHELTER-IN-PLACE EXTENDED, AND OTHER COVID-19 UPDATES
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Effective tonight, the Shelter-in-Place Order that was set to expire on April 7 has been extended through May 3, 2020. The new Order is taking effect across the Bay Area and is complementary to the indefinite statewide stay-at-home order issued by the Governor earlier this month. This extension is important as public health officials have determined that more and stricter physical distancing is needed to slow the rate of spread, prevent deaths, and stop the health care system from becoming overwhelmed.
The new order adds some clarifying language around essential business and activities, as well as some new directives, including:
- Use of playgrounds, dog parks, public picnic areas, and similar recreational areas is prohibited. These areas must be closed to public use.
- Use of shared public recreational facilities such as golf courses, tennis, and basketball courts, pools, and rock walls is prohibited. These facilities must be closed for recreational use.
- Sports requiring people to share a ball or other equipment must be limited to people in the same household.
- Essential businesses are required to develop a social distancing protocol before April 3.
- Most construction—residential and commercial—is prohibited.
- Funerals are limited to no more than 10 people attending.
- Essential businesses are expanded to include service providers that enable residential transactions (notaries, title companies, realtors, etc.), funeral homes and cemeteries, moving companies, rental car companies, and rideshare services that specifically enable essential activities.
- Essential businesses that continue to operate facilities must scale down operations to their essential component only.
For more information, see the County of Marin's press release. Additionally, the Marin HHS Coronavirus website has lots of good FAQs which are being updated every day, and will soon be updated again with the most recent guidance from this new Shelter-in-Place Order.
In addition to the updated regional Shelter-in-Place Order, Marin County Public Health issued an updated Park Closure Order that provides clarity on park and open space access in Marin county. In summary, the new Order states that individuals may access parks and open space areas that are local to their homes and are easily accessible by foot, bicycle or other non-motorized means, strictly for the purpose of engaging in exercise, as defined by the updated Shelter-in-Place Order.
Please note:
- Driving to access parks or open space areas is prohibited, except for individuals with disabilities with vehicles possessing current and valid Disabled Person Parking Placards or License Plates.
- Above all, all visitors to any park location must continue to comply with social distancing requirements and are expected to stay local to the greatest extent possible.
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