David Perkins wants to turn his Sequoyah Hills home into a duplex from where he intends to teach music lessons, schedule music performances and run a Jewish sperm bank by coordinating two fertility services, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.

But Perkins’ neighbors aren’t too thrilled about the business plan.

“We are very much opposed to this,” Kingston Pike Sequoyah Hills Association board member Jim Bletner told the News Sentinel.

Homeowners are expected to protest Perkins’ plans at a Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting tonight, contending the duplex would be “out of character” in the single-family home neighborhood and that the businesses would be intrusive to other residents.

Perkins, a musician who plays Klezmer and Dixieland Jazz, said no performances will take place at the residence.

Seems neighbors got a little peeved when they saw a photo of the house on Perkins’ MySpace page along with a list of events that included “bamboo flute playing” on Sundays, “balloons, juggling and music” on Mondays and a “family musical gathering and drum circle” on Tuesdays.

In response, Perkins said he made the list of events up in order to attract more bookings. He has since removed the list.

Neighbors have also noted that Perkins property has structures that appear to be low-curving benches, much like an amphitheatre.

But Perkins said the wooden structures were originally terraces placed there by previous owners in order to improve drainage, and that he rehabbed them as areas on which to sit and enjoy the grounds.

But musical performances are only one of the neighbors concerns.

Perkins also wants to use the house to coordinate operations for two Jewish fertility services he operates online – JewishSpermDonor.net and JewishEggDonor.net – at the house.

The News Sentinel reports that JewishEggDonor.net pretty much functions as the name implies and arranges for Jewish women to donate eggs. As to JewishSpermDonor.net, the paper says Perkins appears to be the only contributor.

Perkins said he’s operating the services for religious reasons.

“The Torah commands us to be fruitful and multiply,” Perkins said.

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