The Staunton Planning Commission held a work session Monday night to discuss an ordinance to regulate adult businesses in the Queen City.

If the ordinance is passed by the City Council, new business owners will need to pass extensive background checks and comply with strict zoning rules. Current adult businesses will have 30 days to comply with the new requirements.

The Citizen's Task Force also met Monday night to set its sights on the Planning Commission's review. They're happy with how carefully the city is handling the issue.

They had two points on their agenda: to review a draft of the ordinance and to decide when and how they will protest the adult store's existence in the Queen City.

"We may decide to march from Gypsy Hill to city hall. We may decide to stand outside of city hall, the courthouse, which ever is safest for the city, our participants, to get the word out there," says Andrea Oakes, Citizen's Task Force. "They're reacting very quickly, but yet very thorough. They're asking the tough questions, and they're trying their best to be as conservative as possible, but yet still remain within the Constitution."

The task force closed their meeting to the public, but they seem to mean business.

"I have asthma. I have arthritis, but if they march, I'll be there as far as I can march," says Carolyn Knott, Citizen's Task Force.

"I'm very sad that it opened on Spring Hill Road because it is an area where children are getting off the bus, living in an apartment. It's in a residential area, and I'm very sad that it's there," says Betsy Knott, Carolyn's daughter-in-law.

Betsy worries that her granddaughter Tamara may be admitted to an adult store because she looks old enough even though she's only 12.

"It makes me upset because knowing that my friends may be going into these stores and parents don't know about it. I don't think kids my age are going and doing that stuff," says Tamara.

After Hours Video says they've turned down customers at the door for not producing valid indetification, but that's not stopping this battle.

"If an adjoining property allows us to go on their property, then that's private property and that's allowed," says Oakes.

The group isn't sure where they'll protest, as most of the property surrounding After Hours Video is their own.