SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — The Boob Bus does not really feel like your stereotypical physician’s workplace — and it is not speculated to.
“We get the ladies checked in and one factor we love to do is give them a heat gown as a substitute of a paper hospital robe so it does make it really feel extra spa-like,” mentioned The Boob Bus CEO Rena Vanzo.
Since February, Vanzo and The Boob Bus have served greater than 350 girls from Ogden to central Utah — all with the aim of catching breast most cancers early.
“After I began The Boob Bus, Utah was third to the underside within the nation for breast most cancers screening. Our girls simply should not doing it, so with The Boob Bus has come this type of revolution and thought: Let’s make breast most cancers screening extra enjoyable,'” Vanzo mentioned.
When the bus is not touring to offer essential providers to girls, it stays parked in Vanzo’s yard at her South Jordan dwelling the place she will monitor it 24/7.
“If this weren’t parked at my dwelling, it could be actually difficult for me, particularly as a single mother. it is not simple for me to stand up and go away and go verify one thing if it is not right here on my property,” Vanzo mentioned.
Now Vanzo is apprehensive she might not be capable of park her bus in her yard after she was notified that it is a violation of South Jordan metropolis code.
FOX 13 Information reached out to South Jordan Metropolis. The Metropolis code says business autos exceeding 8,000 kilos will not be saved on a residential lot for any size of time.
“I am in a neighborhood with lots of leisure RVs, and from my standpoint, there actually isn’t any distinction to my neighbor’s RV sitting on their property and my RV sitting on my property,” Vanzo mentioned.
Vanzo says she submitted a request to alter town code, however that request was denied.
“Proper now I am confronted with: ‘What am I going to do? The place can I park this bus? And is that going to be a risk to me with the ability to function my enterprise?'” Vanzo mentioned.
She’s now began an on-line petition and submitted an utility to alter the necessities to permit for an exemption for medical autos. She says she’ll get the chance to current her case to the South Jordan Planning Fee and Metropolis Council within the coming months. Within the meantime, she’ll proceed touring and offering breast imagery providers.
“I perceive these codes and these processes exist for a motive, however I feel the very fact of the matter is our society is all the time altering and we have to re-evaluate the codes which might be in place,” Vanzo mentioned.
