Kansas City- With regard to a certain video-store chain, it’s all about the X-factor for several Blue Springs Planning Commission members.

Family Video, a video-rental company, wants to build a 6,000-square-foot store at the southeast corner of Northwest Woods Chapel Road and Northwest Kingsridge Drive.

The problem, for some commission members, is that the store would provide adult entertainment videos.

They would be kept in a separate room in the back of the store, developers said. A sign would indicate that nobody younger than 21 would be allowed in the room, but the door would not be locked.

“I think it’s going to be difficult to monitor,” Commission member Sheila Solon said.

Corporate representatives from the store, based in Springfield, Ill., were not at the meeting.

Family Video has more than 300 stores in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to its Web site.

Solon said she contacted the corporate office and was told that adult videos are sold in 90 percent of the stores.

“We’re a community that would probably prefer not to have it,” she said.

Commission member Lewis Landsberg echoed Solon, saying he was “uncomfortable” with the adult section.

City Attorney Bob McDonald noted that the Unified Development Code states that no more than 10 percent of the entire stock or square footage of the building can be adult-oriented.

“The ordinance allows this,” he said, because the Blue Springs store would have 4 percent adult-oriented material.

While opposed to adult videos, Commission Chairwoman Susan Culpepper said she didn’t see how the commission could vote against the code.

“It’s a battle we can’t win,” she said, “as much as we might dislike it.”

The commission voted to continue the discussion March 22.