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Douglas County issued the following announcement on Oct. 30.

On Friday, Oct. 30, the Board of Douglas County Commissioners issued the following statement regarding the notification by CDPHE of Douglas County’s COVID-19 Safer at Home Dial Level Change:

“On Thursday, Oct. 29, we learned the state of Colorado moved Douglas County from Level 1 to the more restrictive Level 2 on the state’s Safer at Home Dial effective immediately, based primarily on COVID-19 case numbers, positivity, and incidence rate. Our Board’s focus is on the health of our citizens and our economy, paired with a renewed request to state decision-makers that they also consider actual severity (hospitalizations and deaths), a more accurate layer of science to enhance the Dial metric’s validity, and which public health experts have continued to request. Douglas County will continue to partner with Tri-County Health Department and like-minded local, regional and statewide leadership for this science-driven severity metric, while also advocating aggressively for the behaviors that reduce COVID-19 transmission.”

Visit the Douglas County COVID-19 Community Response and Variances page for more information.

Summary of Capacity Differences Between Level 1 and Level 2 in Douglas County, Colorado

Effective immediately, must be completely implemented no later than 5:00 PM on November 4

Business or Activity	Safer at Home Level 1 with Variances	Safer at Home Level 2
Events (receptions, conferences, etc.)	50% capacity per room up to 175 or 250 outdoors	100 indoors per room or 175 outdoors
Gyms	50% capacity per room up to 175	25% capacity up to 50 per room
Indoor Mall	50% capacity per room up to 175	Same as Level 1.  Park Meadows variance stays in place.
Indoor Pools	50% capacity per room up to 175	25% capacity up to 50 per room
Libraries	50% capacity per room up to 175	100 indoors per room
Office-based Business, Critical	Must follow social distancing requirements and statewide mask mandate	Same as Level 1
Office-based Business, non-critical	Allowed to operate with staff at up to 50% capacity	Same as Level 1
Personal Services (spas, salons, etc.)	50% capacity per room up to 50	Same as Level 1
Places of Worship and Life Rites	50% capacity per room up to 175	50% capacity per room up to 50.  Extra-large spaces (at least 30k SF) up to 100
Restaurants	50% capacity per room up to 175	50% capacity per room up to 50
Retail, Critical (groceries, home improvement, pharmacies, etc.)	Must follow social distancing requirements and statewide mask mandate	Same as Level 1
Retail, Non-critical	50% capacity	Same as Level 1
Social Gatherings	Up to 10, no more than 2 household	Up to 10, no more than 2 household
Team Sports	Up to 50 players	Up to 25 players

Original source can be found here.