Regional Stay Home Order
Anaheim and all of Orange County continue under a regional stay home order that took effect Dec. 6 and was extended on Dec. 29.
The regional stay home order requires significant operational changes or shutdowns of businesses and other organizations.
The order is based on hospital intensive-care unit capacity for a state-defined Southern California region, which stretches from San Diego to San Luis Obispo in the west and Mono County in the northeast.
ICU capacity for the region has been at 0 percent for days now.
In Orange County, adjusted ICU capacity, which measures bed availability to care for COVID-19 patients, is at 0 percent, unchanged for several days.
The regional stay home order is in place until a projection looking four weeks out projects a return to 15 percent or higher for ICU capacity.
Our region's projected ICU capacity will be evaluated daily looking at current ICU capacity, rate of cases, rate of transmission and the rate of ICU admissions.
If conditions improve, we could move out of the stay home order sooner. If they don't, we will continue under the order.
Here is a summary of restrictions, with some closures already in place in Anaheim and Orange County under purple Tier 1:
- No gatherings with those outside your household
- Closure of bars, wineries, breweries, distilleries (except for production and retail)
- Closure of nail, hair salons, barbers, other personal care services
- Closure of indoor recreation facilities
- Closure of movie theaters (except drive-in)
- Closure of museums, zoos, aquariums
- Closure of family entertainment centers
- Closure of limited services, including car washes, pet groomers, dog walkers
- Closure of theme parks
- No nonessential travel
Allowed to stay open:
- Non-urgent healthcare, including dentists, optometrists
- Schools already open
- Childcare
- Restaurants: takeout only, no more outdoor dining
- Stores, shopping centers: 20 percent capacity, or 35 percent for stand-alone grocery store, with entry metering
- Hotels and lodging: essential travel and lodging only
- Offices: remote except for critical operations where remote is not possible
- Churches, temples, mosques: outdoor only
- Gyms and fitness centers: outdoor only, if possible to do so; no indoor
- Critical infrastructure and services (water, power, government)
- Parks, trails, beaches, playgrounds other outdoor recreation
When we eventually exit the stay home order, we will return to the tier system based on our positivity rate and daily case rate at that time.
Read more about the regional stay home order here.
Enforcement:
As a city, we do all we can to visit and cite businesses that are not complying with the stay home order via our code enforcement team. We also report businesses, such as restaurants and bars to the state Department of Alcohol Beverage Control and workplaces to the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Feel free to report businesses to us online or at (714) 765-5158.
Unfortunately, as a city we don't have authority to shut a business down. But state agencies do.
If you'd like to take further action, you can file an individual complaint against a business:
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Reopening: Anaheim Businesses
What Anaheim businesses can open, reopen and how they operate is based on California's colored tier system and where Orange County falls within that system, as well as any additional stay-at-home orders from the governor and the California Department of Public Health.
The tier system is superseded by the regional stay-at-home order. However, find criteria below for when we do exit the order and return to the tier system.
Tier Criteria
Here are the tiers and the criteria for each:
Purple, Tier 1 (Orange County)
For counties with widespread cases and test results coming back at a positivity rate of 8 percent or higher and with seven or more new daily cases per 100,000 residents.
Red, Tier 2
For counties with substantial cases and a positivity rate of 5 percent to 8 percent and four to seven new daily cases per 100,000.
Orange, Tier 3
For counties with moderate cases and a positivity rate of 2 percent to 4.9 percent and growth in new daily cases of 1 to 3.9 per 100,000.
Yellow, Tier 4
For counties with minimal cases and a positivity rate of less than 2 percent and growth in new daily cases of less than 1 per 100,000.
Read more about how the state calculates county data within this framework here.
Health Equity Metric
As of Oct. 6, the state factors in a health equity metric that's intended to help counties advance through tiers while ensuring disadvantaged neighborhoods are receiving the health resources they need to address coronavirus.
The lowest quarter of Orange County's neighborhoods have to see a testing positivity rate close to that of the next tier we're looking to move into.
Guidelines
Below is a thorough list of what can and can't be open in Anaheim at each tier. It goes in sequence starting with Tier 1, where we currently sit, then to Tier 2 and so on.
Further down you'll find state operating guidelines as well as a reopening plan template you can create for your business and share with Anaheim.
It is critical Anaheim businesses follow guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus so we can move through reopening and avoid moving backward through tiers.
