SEATTLE - A recent downtown shooting and new concerns about safety has the Seattle City Council trying to come up with some new rules to curb the violence and rowdiness. 

Residents have been butting heads with bar and club owners for years about drunks, noise and litter.  Early Monday, a woman was shot in downtown Seattle outside a popular nightclub.  Now Seattle City council is proposing new rules to try to stop the escalating violence. 

Neighbors say the latest shooting is becoming all too familiar. 

"She was just laying down non-responsive and not moving. I only saw if from about 20 feet away when I came around the corner to see what was going on," said a witness.  "It was sad.  It's the neighborhood now. It's kind of sad." 

On any weekend night in Seattle when the bars close and the patrons leave, the party continues outside, and many times that's when the trouble starts.  So now Seattle City Council is proposing some strict new rules.  

Those rules include requiring nightclubs to pay into a security pool that would hire off duty Seattle police officers to patrol the area.  Also five nights a week two city inspectors would cite clubs violating noise occupancy and litter rules.  And finally the city would impose steep fines on clubs that broke the rules. 

Bar and club owners have said in the past they too want a safe environment, but the burden should not be on them alone. 

"It would be really unfair for my employees to have to go out and keep people from doing drugs on the street or fighting in the parking lot," said one club owner.  "They don't have the tool at their disposal to do that." 

These new city council proposed rules come on the heels of Mayor Nickel's proposal.  He wants to require nightclubs to pay for a special license that would require bar owners to keep the peace. 

A city council committee is set to vote on the draft legislation next month.  If it passes, it will then go to the full city council.