The city of Birmingham plans to seek a temporary restraining order to keep Skky Nightclub in Southside from operating due to recent violence inside and near the club.

This measure is sought pending a business license revocation hearing before the Birmingham City Council, according to the city's law department.

The revocation is set to be discussed at the Birmingham City Council's public safety committee meeting at 4:30 p.m. on Monday at City Hall. A public hearing will be set for a later date. No hearing will be held on Monday.

The Five Points Neighborhood Association is seeking the business license revocation due to recent violent incidents.

Skky Nightclub owner Dan Cooper said he hasn't been notified of any actions being taken against his club.

"I have not officially been made aware of any hearing," he told AL.com. "I haven't been made aware of any restraining order on the club."

Two men were injured in a shooting near Skky Nightclub in the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 2. Just prior to the shooting, Birmingham police believe the victims were involved in an altercation inside the club.

Police closed down the club that night due to a fight that security was unable to control, police said. At least one business and vehicle were damaged by gunfire that night.

Cooper said he voluntarily closed down the club for the rest of the weekend due to the incident. He said the club was rented out that night for a private event.

"Security took effective measures to shut it down," Cooper said. "We got the people involved out of the club immediately. We shut the club down immediately."

Skky Nightclub reopened the next weekend, the owner said.

On Memorial Day weekend, Birmingham police officers had to close down the club due to an altercation.

Skky Nightclub general manager Larry McMullen said the incident occurred near the end of a high school graduation party being held at the club. Parental chaperones were there.

"We are doing our duty," he said.

Birmingham police South Precinct Capt. Ronald Sellers said he has to assign patrol officers outside the club at closing time, almost every weekend, to make sure those vacating the club leave the area and don't cause disturbances in the neighborhood.

"The violence happening there is spilling out onto the streets and is affecting our citizens," he said, adding that responding to incidents there and patrolling outside the club has become a "drain on our manpower."

In May 2016, a man was shot in the leg while inside the club. The man suffered non-life threatening injuries.

"The violence in our city must stop," Five Points South Neighborhood Association Vice President Stephen Foster said, in a letter to Mayor William Bell, Council President Pro Tem Steven Hoyt and Councilor Valerie Abbott.

Foster drafted a letter and spoke before the City Council to make them aware of the violence associated with Skky Nightclub.

"We as a neighborhood are asking for action," he wrote. "The Five Points South Neighborhood Association is asking for an immediate revocation of Skky Nightclub's business license and liquor license. We also request that the public safety committee review and update policies for businesses to retain their business license when events ... get out of hand and impact neighborhoods."

Foster told AL.com that he decided "to step out on a limb" and address the council because Five Points South "is a place that I care about. This is a place that I am investing in.

Steve Alexander, an attorney and chairman of the Five Points Alliance board, said the alliance is supporting the neighborhood association in seeking the revocation.

"Anyone who loves Five Points South should be concerned about it especially those who live here, work here and go to business here," he said. "The neighborhood restaurants and bars have been impacted a great deal. There has been gunfire associated with the club and people letting out of the club. The crowds that are being drawn there are having an impact on the other neighborhood bars.

"We are hoping that something can be done about it before someone becomes seriously injured, if they haven't already," Alexander said.

Foster said there's a history of clubs being allowed to operate in Five Points South until the violence escalates to shootings and even death.

Two men were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting that occurred outside Banana Joe's Nightclub on 20th Street South in July 2008. The teen charged in the slayings was thrown out of the nightclub earlier that night for fighting. He was later acquitted on two counts of capital murder.

The nightclub's owner voluntarily closed the club.

The Birmingham City Council revoked the business license for Continental Ballroom, located near the Birmingham and Homewood border, when a teenager was shot and injured at party attended by 700 people in April 2014.