I'm a KMS parent, and have picked up my share of broken glass that the dickhead fratboys who lived next door lobbed into the playground. I think I'm going to start mailing it to Barbara Pelot.

What really yanked my chain in all this is that the Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association sent out mailings claiming that the school was opposed to the rezoning, even though they knew this wasn't true.

Jim Bletner of the Kingston Pike Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association said the area has "been assaulted at both ends."

"Kingston Pike is a very fragile area," he said.

"We will continue to deal with overgrown weeds, broken beer bottles and naked men running through at (the Montessori School's) dismissal time," she said."

A friend tried to do some legal work out of her home there, no clients coming in just computer/research and when she thought out loud about expanding it (and still keeping her office downtown) the word got out and the "neighbors" stopped her.

Although she only paid 100K for her home in 1973 she is getting offers of 2.5M and up today, loves the neighborhood and knows the longer she stays the more the home will be worth. The downside is the stringent rules implied by the association.

"Huh. Wow. We never though about doing that! Thanks!"

I LOL'd!

I'm incommunicado about it because the details aren't any of your business.

What matters is that the property is still rundown, and due to the interior configuration (no kitchen or living space on the ground floor) it is not likely to become anything but a rental property, and a bad one at that, for a long time. Allowing for an extremely low visibility, live/work business, with no permitted signage and very limited parking (3 spaces, I believe) permitted only behind the house and not visible from Kingston Pike, seems like it would be far better for everyone. But I guess not.

the details aren't any of your business

Touchy... I thought I was asking a reasonable question. I thought it was brought up as a matter of public record last night at the City Council meeting. Although, no one had any official records of these complaints.

I am sorry you feel this way. I am sorry that the school has not been able to get someone, the City, the Police, the owner of the house to correct the problem. Too bad your solution is to have other citizens suffer, business in residential area, instead of fixing the real problem.

Interior configurations can be corrected. It happens all of the time. Many time houses in Sequoyah are just demo'd and a new house built. It is also my understanding, from the City Council meeting, that not so many renters will be allowed in this single family home as in the past.

Maybe you as a parent of a student that attends a private school affected by these renters should work a little harder to correct this problem.

But I guess some S.H. folks don't like to get their hands dirty?

More like North Knoxville, and Fourth and Gill, and Fountain City, and Rocky Hill folk. I think I'm one of two "S.H." folk at KMS, and I live in an apartment building that the Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association would dearly love to blow up.

I can help but be a little amused by the fact that a “dilapidated” house in Sequoyah Hills has generated not one, but two articles in the Sentinel.