Safely REOPENING Ventura County
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Outdoor dining only.

Follow this guidance for campgrounds, RV parks, ski operations, and other outdoor recreation to create a safer environment for workers and patrons.

Review the guidance and prepare a plan for your workplace to show customers and employees that you’ve reduced the risk and are open for business.

Outdoor playgrounds can open with modifications in all tiers. See requirements for outdoor playgrounds to keep them safe and fun for everyone.

Outdoor skateparks can open with modifications in all tiers. Attendees must adhere to physical distancing requirements and mask wearing as outlined in the outdoor playground guidance.

Drowning prevention classes, including swim lessons with certified instructors, are permitted in indoor and outdoor swimming pools in all tiers, as they are deemed essential.

Guidance for Outdoor Playgrounds

• Outdoor only with modifications
• Racetracks may resume training and competition without live audiences, subject to approval by the county public health officer

Guidance (indoor)

• Follow the guidance related to cohorts of children and youth.
• See the answers to frequently asked questions about cohorts and waivers for childcare providers.
• Follow the case and contact management guidance related to cohorts for childcare facilities.

Each group must be stable. The same campers and instructor stay together and do not mix with other groups, including from day to day.

Any camp activity must maintain 6-foot social distancing. Individual skills and drills can be done, but no group or contact sports such as a football or basketball games may be played.

• Movie theaters: Outdoor only with modifications
• Family entertainment centers: Outdoor only with modifications for activities like kart racing, mini golf, batting cages
• Playgrounds: Outdoor only with modifications

• Indoor pools, hot tubs, saunas, and steam rooms must close
  • Drowning prevention classes, including swim lessons with certified instructors, are permitted in indoor and outdoor swimming pools in all tiers, as they are deemed essential
• A gym can offer personal training for only one person at a time (no more than a total of one trainer and one client permitted at a time per business premises). Follow the guidance for limited services when providing one-on-one personal fitness training.

• Open with modifications
• Fitness centers can be open outdoors only with modifications
• Indoor pools, hot tubs, saunas and steam rooms must close

• Counseling
• Laundromats
• Dry Cleaners
• Auto Repair
• Car Washes
• Landscapers
• Pet Grooming
• Dog Walking
• Tanning Salon
• Cleaning Services
• HVAC
• Appliance Repair
• Electricians
• Plumbers
• Handypersons
• General Contractors

Follow this guidance for limited services to support a safe, clean environment for workers and customers. A limited service is one that generally does not require close contact.

Review the guidance, prepare a plan, and post the checklist for limited services in your workplace to show clients and employees that you’ve reduced the risk and are open for business.

Faith-based counseling can reopen within the following parameters:

1. Counseling services are permissible in-person where the service cannot reasonably be practiced remotely;
2. Counseling services should adopt state guidance on Limited Services, where applicable;
3. This designation does not permit gatherings beyond counseling to members of a single household.

Personal care services can open indoors with modifications in all tiers. Follow this guidance for personal care services like nail salons, tattoo parlors, and body waxing to support a safe, clean environment for workers and customers. This guidance applies to services that require touching a client’s face, like facials, electrolysis, and waxing. It also applies to esthetic services, skin care, and massage therapy. Review the guidance, prepare a plan, and post the checklist for personal care services in your workplace to show customers and employees that you’ve reduced the risk and are open for business.

This guidance and checklist include additional considerations for:

• Esthetic and skin care services
• Electrology services
• Nail services
• Body art professionals, tattoo parlors, and piercing shops
• Massage services (in non-healthcare settings)

• Movie theaters: Outdoor only with modifications
• Family entertainment centers: Outdoor only with modifications for activities like kart racing, mini golf, batting cages
• Playgrounds: Outdoor only with modifications

Personal care services can open indoors with modifications in all tiers. Follow this guidance for personal care services like nail salons, tattoo parlors, and body waxing to support a safe, clean environment for workers and customers.

• Eyelash Extensions
• Esthetic and skin care services
• Waxing
• Electrology services
• Nail services
• Body art professionals, tattoo parlors, and piercing shops
• Massage services (in non-healthcare settings)

Personal care services can open indoors with modifications in all tiers. Follow this guidance for personal care services like nail salons, tattoo parlors, and body waxing to support a safe, clean environment for workers and customers. This guidance applies to services that require touching a client’s face, like facials, electrolysis, and waxing. It also applies to esthetic services, skin care, and massage therapy. Review the guidance, prepare a plan, and post the checklist for personal care services in your workplace to show customers and employees that you’ve reduced the risk and are open for business.

This guidance and checklist include additional considerations for:

• Esthetic and skin care services
• Electrology services
• Nail services
• Body art professionals, tattoo parlors, and piercing shops
• Massage services (in non-healthcare settings)

Wineries: Outdoor only with modifications

Bars, breweries, and distilleries (not serving food): Closed. If serving sit down meals, follow guidance for restaurants

Alcohol can only be sold in the same transaction as a meal. Wineries and wine tasting rooms may open outdoor operations even if they do not offer sit-down, outdoor dine-in meals. Curbside service is allowed. Local cities may have additional restrictions regarding outdoor operations. Please check with your local city before starting any outdoor operations.

In addition to complying with the State orders and guidance, these businesses must comply with the following requirements:

• only members of the same household may sit together at a single table
• bars must be closed to the public between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Live music is allowed outdoors with the following modifications:

• Live solo or duet (from same household) singers/musicians can perform outdoors at restaurants, bars, or wineries.
• The soloist/duet must stay at least 20 feet away from patrons and not amplify the music to the point where people have to lean in to be heard.
• The live music cannot cause people to gather. It should be for the benefit of the business patrons who are already seated and not to attract people to gather around the performers and/or stage.

Template for Dine-In

• Open with modifications
• Retail capacity must be limited to 25%
• Grocery store capacity must be limited to 50%

• Indoor capacity must be limited to 25% for shopping malls, destination shopping centers, and swap meets
• Closed common areas
• Closed food courts

• Live solo or duet (from same household) singers/musicians can perform outdoors at restaurants, bars, or wineries.
• The soloist/duet must stay at least 20 feet away from patrons and not amplify the music to the point where people have to lean in to be heard.
• The live music cannot cause people to gather. It should be for the benefit of the business patrons who are already seated and not to attract people to gather around the performers and/or stage.

• Follow this guidance for youth sports programs, including school-based, club, and recreational programs. Review the guidance and prepare a plan to support a safe environment for players, coaches and trainers, families, spectators, event/program/facility managers, workers, and volunteers.
  • Check the questions and answers about youth sports.
  • Follow the guidance related to cohorts of children and youth.