So, I have a random question for other Seattle-area sorts.
I live right just south of North Seattle Community College, within walking distance of Northgate (which means also walking distance of the Northgate Transit Center, and the upcoming North Link Rail station). This puts me right smack in a nicely walkable area for anything held at NSCC (as well as right by Evergreen Hospital's outpatient center), as well as the Thornton Place and Northgate shopping areas. I also work for a small software company, small enough that we all keep home offices rather than a central one. As such, I'm generally here. (And thus reachable if someone desperate were to go 'can you spare some wattage, help a brother out?')
So I'm considering that my house might make a useful spot to set up for charge-sharing and add to PlugShare!
However, I was planning to put the L2 charger inside my garage rather than outside. (Worse, if I did put it outside, it would block the ability to go into the garage while anything was parked there.) As such, I'm considering the feasibility of putting a second charger out near the end of the driveway.
But I'm totally at a loss on how to best handle this. I live in an area with no sidewalks; the 'shoulder' that people park on is technically in my yard and on my property. I'd think I could run a line out there, put in a charger and an "Electric Vehicle Parking Only" type sign, and call it good. However, I have thus far been unable to figure out who the heck I would need to talk to about okaying this! Everyone I've spoken to about the possibility has scratched their heads and made confused noises. I'd throw in the towel and run an extension cord across the yard from the house, but that just seems like trouble waiting to happen.
(I need to run power out to the end of the yard /anyway/, because with no streetlights at that end of the property, there really needs to be some lighting at the end of my driveway anyway to avoid unfortunate mailbox-and-car related incidents. We've only had near misses thus far when people come to visit, but it's a matter of time; the mailbox post is already crooked, suggesting that the previous owner of the house was less lucky. And the little battery-powered solar lights aren't proving sufficient on their own.)
Any thoughts, advice, remarks that I'm crazy and should forget the idea, etc. would be appreciated.