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10,000- square -foot club, for which they pay a quarter -of -a- million dollars in rent to Hacienda Business Park. He added that this is a very expensive club, and the amount of security they pay for is very expensive as well. He added that cutting it down to 300 patrons does not pencil -out; there is no way to do the calculations on the amount of expense and still have the Club open, and it would be just as much a revocation of this club. He noted that 300 of the wrong crowd is not going to help Pleasanton or the operator; all it took was one bad person shooting another in the parking lot. Mr. Mull stated that they would like to have 800, the number in the occupancy, of good people, in the same manner that there could be 500 people out in the Hilton. He stated that there is nothing intrinsic about the club that should cause these problems, and what they would like to do is change the crowd. He noted that they have approached the premiere Northern California Latin Music Promoter, a group out of San Jose that does very large events at the Staples Center, at the San Jose Convention Center, at the Shoreline Amphitheater, and works with a major promoter called Live Nation. He further noted that this promoter likes the club's space and would like to work with the club. He added that they will bring an excellent crowd that does not have the same problems as the urban crowd that they have been hi- jacked with these last six weeks. He indicated that In order to make that happen, they would have to make the promoter's expectations in profit come through, and limiting the capacity to 300 will not only kill that but will also leave them with the same 300 people with the same problems. Mr. Mull stated that he believes the better way to solve this is not by reducing the numbers but to change their formatting. He indicated that when they came forward with a half - million - dollar investment, it was done with the idea that there were the resources, that there was due diligence on the part of the Planning Commission who looked at the conditions and figured that this was something that the Pleasanton PD and staff could deal with. He pointed out that now they are hearing that this is a strain on Pleasanton's resources. He compared it, as far as investment expectations are concerned. to coming to Pleasanton in 2010 with a request to approve an eight -story building, and when a small fire incident occurs on the lower floors, the City then comes back saying that the ladders on the fire trucks go only to the third floor so the top five floors should not be utilized. He added that knocking 800 down to 300 is equivalent to knocking down their expectations of being able to have a profitable club, assuming it is sustainable. Mr. Mull stated that they are definitely willing to work with the PD in every way to make sure that the Police's concerns are met and to come up with systems in place to ensure the safety of their patrons. He added that they have just as much, or even more, interest in that as the City. He asked the Commission to allow them to make this shift, and if they have similar problems after the shift, they can then approach a reduction potentially as one way to address these problems. He noted that cutting down to 300 handcuffs them and makes it impossible to make these changes that they think are in the best interests of the club, the City, and the landowner. He added that if this change happens, they will be gone, the landowner will have no rent, and there is probably no one else in this economy that is going to open up a business at this location, which is not appropriate for another restaurant because it does not have frontage on Hopyard PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 8, 2012 Page 7 of 23