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Hair Salons, Barbershops May Open Indoors; Operations of Other Lower-Risk Personal Services Remains Only Outdoors

City of Oakland, Working Solutions Announce $1.375 Million in COVID-19 Relief Grants Made to Small Businesses

As part of the City of Oakland’s Flex Streets Initiative, the Economic & Workforce Development Department’s Real Estate staff is making available vacant, outdoor City-owned properties to retail businesses and restaurants which are unable to expand their operations on the public right-of-way or private property.

As Oakland businesses continue work to safely reopen under the terms of Alameda County’s shelter-in-place order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the City of Oakland offered a reminder today that it will continue supporting economic recovery and enable easier access for patrons of local businesses by reactivating all parking meters citywide, effective July 6. Ticketing at time-limited parking zones (such as 1-hour zones and 2-hour zones, for example) will also resume July 6.

On Thursday, June 25, the California Strategic Growth Council voted to fund Oakland’s “Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighbors” proposal through a multi-year grant of $28.2 million.

The City is waiving fees and streamlined the permitting process for use of sidewalk space and parking areas for businesses to expand while complying with revised Alameda County shelter-in-place order

$10 million commitment will support government, business, faith-based, nonprofit partners in 10 places with two goals: protecting communities from displacement and eliminating barriers to access capital and credit

The new multi-year program will fund Oakland’s cultural practitioners of color to radically imagine a racially just city

As Oakland businesses continue work to safely reopen under the terms of Alameda County’s shelter-in-place order to slow the spread of COVID-19, the City of Oakland announced today that it will continue supporting economic recovery and enable easier access to businesses by reactivating all parking meters citywide, effective July 6.

As Oakland small businesses adapt to current and anticipated Alameda County health orders, City of Oakland staff have heard from the business community and the Economic Recovery Advisory Council that businesses want a simple, streamlined process to use outdoor spaces to support safe reopening. In response, City staff are looking at quick, creative ways that the public right of way could be adapted to meet physical distancing requirements.