Kate Sessions Park, Pacific Beach. Permit fees for gyms, fitness classes, restaurants, churches now waived. City parks will temporarily make room for certain brick and mortar businesses to carry on outdoors - against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order. The San Diego City Council passed an emergency ordinance last week to aid the local economic recovery by waiving permit fees for gyms, fitness classes, restaurants and others displaced by the pandemic, including places of worship, to operate on public parkland. Since Nov. 10, the city has been in the state's purple tier, which prohibits nonessential businesses from being open indoors. Outdoor gyms, however, are considered part of the essential workforce, helping maintain health, as long as there is physical distancing. Churches can also operate outdoors with modifications.