I think we have built pretty solid relationships with local motels and restaurants, we could ask them to help us lobby the council. I know if I reached out to Paul (Red Coat) and maybe the pub and A&W, we could get them to send a nice e-mail in support of our club to council on our behalf.
Similarly, if you guys have built first person relationships with your hotels, it may help to reach out to them.
Generally it lends us a lot more credibility to our positive impact on the community when local businesses are willing to go to bat for us.
I think basically what needs to be done is a quick draft of what we would like them to say, and a list of council e-mail addresses for them to send it to. Then in a single coordinated effort, we can contact the businesses to see if they would be interested.
Do they have a local paper? We could even get them to CC the media to help bolster support. Anytime I have chit-chatted with locals, they are overwhelmingly supportive of our events. If they knew that council was trying to boot us out, they might have something to say about it too.