SEVEN FIELDS — The future of a proposed cigar bar at the former site of Table 86 may be up in smoke.

Borough council on Monday night discussed a proposal by Club Leaf & Bean, a members-only cigar lounge, to include for-profit companies in the borough's zoning ordinance definition of private clubs.

Currently, only nonprofits may use that designation.

But the Seven Fields council denied the club's request to change that ordinance, allowing to die a motion to place a legal advertisement for that amendment.

In doing so, council followed the advice of the planning commission, which, at its Oct. 7 meeting, chose not to recommend amending the ordinance and to recommend against changing the zoning code.

“The planning commission does not believe a private, for-profit club is within the vision we have for our community,” an approved commission motion read, according to Borough Manager Tom Smith. “We stand behind the vision as it is currently codified in our zoning ordinances.”

Council considered the motion after spirited discussion from both residents and owners of Club Leaf & Bean.

Mark Zini, a founder of the club, said the proposed cigar lounge would have a security system and cameras and said at September's borough council meeting that members would have access to the building 24 hours a day.

Residents questioned the security at the building, saying it wasn't clear how the company, which allows patrons to bring alcohol, would prevent or respond to incidents that occurred when the building was unstaffed.

“It doesn't really seem like the amount of alcohol that people could bring in will be monitored or how much people are drinking while in the facility will be monitored,” said Meredith Welle, a member of the planning commission.

“I have serious concerns about that,” she said. “Who would be there to call the police if somebody is heavily intoxicated and getting in their vehicle and driving away?”

Matt Kaltenberger, who is lead pastor at Grace Church and involved with the club, said the club would revoke such a patron's membership. Zini said their other members-only location, in North Strabane Township, Washington County, has not had police calls or incidents of that sort since it opened in 2013.

Jean Spadacene said she had a different concern: a possible impact on Seven Fields' children.

“It sends the wrong message to the community, that smoking is glamorous and cigars are glamorous,” Spadacene said. “That's the last thing I want to tell children. Vaping, cigars, anything — it's not glamorous and it can kill you.”

Welle brought back the discussion to the issue of the proposed ordinance amendment.

“What is actually being debated here ... is the allowance of a private club by changing the zoning ordinance, and, by doing so, yes, we are debating Club Leaf & Bean, but also allowing the potential for other private clubs in the future and who knows what that will be,” Welle said.

Council President Jennifer Sikora moved to approve the request for a legal ad, but there were no seconds. With that, the motion died.

Solicitor Megan Turnbull said after the meeting that the lounge has not exhausted its options, as it could still move to occupy that location under a different zoning definition or apply for a variance from the zoning hearing board.