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Rover rolls out
Sustainable Ballard and Ballard Homes for All are promoting what they think is an ideal place for homeless car campers to sleep: church parking lots. To do that, the groups are currently working on a pilot project to sign up all 52 of Ballard’s churches, with each to provide just three to four spaces a night where cars can park without fear of being run off by the police.
In the morning, they can take a shower in “Rover 1,” a prototype mobile shower unit that graduate architect students from the University of Washington have designed and are currently building on top of a four-by-eight-foot tow trailer. The unit, says Glo Mahar of Ballard Homes for All, has a changing unit up front, a shower in back, and an outside sink, all of which can be hooked up to a participating church’s plumbing for hot water.
It’s hoped the prototype, which will make its public debut this weekend at the Sustainable Ballard Festival, will lead to a Rover 2 and Rover 3 as churches throughout the city agree to let car campers use their lots, but, so far, Mahar says, the group has yet to sign up a single congregation. Rover 1 will be parked Sept. 27-28, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Ballard Commons Park.
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