Private clubs must be evaluated in the same manner as restaurants, especially with regard to the actual number of seats and event capacity. While most now are probably town-serving, if the number of clubs keeps increasing, out of town members will be required to make them profitable and existing restaurants will need to compete with the clubs for town business more than they do now. Of equal importance, the more club seats that are used by townspeople, the greater the number of seats that will be available to out of towners in the public restaurants. The town-serving requirement for new clubs in this case will not help prevent additional traffic and congestion, because as the total number of seats rises, the harder it gets for all dining businesses to remain town-serving. (There should be a maximum number of dining and retail establishments in town that corresponds directly to the number of townspersons who can reasonably be expected to use them.) Therefore, clubs must be viewed as a type of restaurant and their seats must be fully accounted for. Policy 1.11.6 in the Comprehensive Plan probably should be amended, as the reference to "low intensity" uses such as clubs is completely out of date. (In fact, most of the uses referred to in that policy are of high intensity.)