Adult bookstore asks court to weigh in on video booths Owners of an adult bookstore in Plum Creek hope Montgomery County Circuit Court will grant an appeal to open video-viewing booths in their store.

Ken Holliday and Dan Bickley, co-owners of Exotic Illusions on Radford Road, want to open private booths to allow their customers to preview adult videos.

County zoning administrator Steve Sandy told the owners that the booths constituted a movie theater, which is not allowed in the general business district. Sandy also said the booths did not constitute a "school of special instruction" for married couples, as the owners had argued.

The county board of zoning appeals agreed with Sandy and disallowed the booths last month.

Roy David Warburton, attorney for Holliday and Bickley, filed the court appeal on Feb. 7. No hearing date has been set, and the county has until March 4 to respond to the appeal.

Holliday said Tuesday that the zoning decision hurts his business because the booths are "essential" to running an adult bookstore.

"A lot of people don't want to take them [the videos] home where the kids can find them," Holliday said.

County Attorney Marty McMahon could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Holliday said he owns an Exotic Illusions store in Princeton, W.Va., that has viewing booths. He and Bickley opened a second store in Montgomery County because of customer demand, he said.

- Tonia Moxley