ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, September 23, 1996 TAG: 9609230113
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: & Now This...
SOURCE: CHRISTINA NUCKOLS
The Mobile Stress-Buster has been stressing out one neighborhood in Southwest Roanoke County.
Owner Pat Sollinger uses the 34-foot blue Winnebago for her stress management business, which incorporates a variety of massage techniques. The vehicle makes regular rounds to several local shopping centers, and when Sollinger began parking the vehicle behind her home on Kentland Drive overnight, neighbors got a little tense.
"It has not relieved our stress at all," said Frank Mays, one of three neighbors who asked the Roanoke County Board of Zoning Appeals last week to deny Sollinger permission to keep the Winnebago at her home.
Although county officials agreed the Winnebago will have to go, they pointed out that an identical vehicle would be permitted in the neighborhood if it were used for winter trips to Florida rather than as a business.
Sollinger said she had always intended for her back yard to be a temporary site. She said she's having a hard time finding a new place to store the vehicle because it requires an overnight electrical hookup to maintain the temperature of the onboard Hydro-Sonic Infrasound Rejuvenator System, a waterbed that uses motion and music to relieve stress.
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