In letter to Polis, Douglas County commissioners ask to reopen restaurants

n a letter to Gov. Jared Polis sent Nov. 25, Douglas County commissioners requested that the county be allowed to start a variance program that would keep qualifying restaurants open for indoor dining.

The program commissioners referred to, called the “5-Star Variance Protection Program,” is currently being utilized in Mesa County and allows qualifying restaurants to be open with limited capacity, according to The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction.

“It is not fair that a restaurant in Mesa County… is allowed to operate while businesses here can’t,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said in a Nov. 24 work session. “That is not right”

In the letter, commissioners said that if the governor did not engage in a conversation with them by Dec. 4, they would implement the program on their own. Commissioners are not in control of whether or not restaurants are allowed to open.

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