High Density Meraki Wireless - "Design Guide".

Hi All
Im looking for a discussion / thoughts of how to implement a Meraki Wireless network for many clients on a single location.
I have read Mearkis Whitepaper on : "Successful WiFi Deployment for Large Events", and it has a lot of good points.
https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_whitepaper_large_events.pdf
(even though I would not set a bandwidth limit today at 100Kbit/sec - the paper is from 2011 a lot has happened since then). 
But my top concern is broadcast and multicast traffic, because this traffic is sent at low datarates.
Is there a way to disable broadcast and multicast on Meraki Wireless solution, like on a Cisco "Classic" Wireless LAN Controller solution ? (Proxy ARP and so on.)
I am not that concerned about the physical layer (AP placement, Antennas, Channels and Transmit power).
How would you design a Meraki Wireless network for many clients (1,2 maybe 3K connected clients in peak hours) ?
What I am thinking:
Im thinking about setting the Meraki APs up in NAT mode, to avoid being flooded with Broadcast and Multicast traffic from that many clients, like in a "normal" bridged mode solution from the wired / wireless network.
But is this the best solution ?
How does Merakis Layer 3 (with and without MX appliance) work when factoring in broadcast and multicast ?
I cant seem to find any design / configuration guides explaining this.
Anyone care to share their thoughts ?

Nicolas is right on with his assement; but there are a couple other potential pit-falls with this scenario. I did a venue that was about half the size I'd say and one of the biggest issues I encountered was that there were soo many client devices trying to transmit that the spectrum was flooded with beacons, and association requests and the like. Now I am not saying that it's not possible to cover this area, but it is certainly more difficult if your only utilizing the 2.4ghz band since there are only 3 channels you can choose to use.
For what it's worth in my installation I used direction patch antennas (as narrow as I could find) and mounted them on the ceiling (about 60' high) and estimated their anticpated coverage at a very very low transmit power (1mw to  3 mw I believe). to estimate the coverage I took the beam width of the antenna (42 degrees vertical, 80 degrees horizontal) and then figure out at 60' how wide would that area be that gave me a rough idea of the basic coverage area and from that I could determine how many clients that AP would see, and from there I could atleast set one up and test the actual coverage and also estimate the number of AP and possibly placement so you can review the channelization and such. If too many clients could potentially be in the coverage zone you may need to use a different antenna or change positions, etc. Does that make sense?
This is no definitive template for this, many people would do this many different ways.
Hope this helps you out.

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      Transmit Power Neighbor Count.................. 3 APs
      Min Transmit Power............................. -10 dBm
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      TPCv2 VoWLAN Guide RSSI........................ -67.0 dBm
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    AP.CORPO.P11.NORTE               *1         *7/8 ( 5 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P11.SUR                 *1         *7/8 ( 5 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.NORESTE              11         6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.NORESTE               1          7/7 ( 4 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.P8.SURESTE               11         6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P7.NORTE                *1         *7/8 ( 5 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.SURESTE              6          6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.SUROESTE             11         5/8 (11 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.SUROESTE              1          5/7 (10 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.P6.NORESTE               6          6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P7.OESTE                 11         6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.NOROESTE              11         5/8 (11 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P6.NOROESTE              1          5/7 (10 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.P6.SURESTE               1          6/7 ( 7 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.P6.SUROESTE              6          5/8 (11 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
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    AP.CORPO.P12.NOROESTE             11         4/8 (14 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P12.SURESTE              11         6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
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    AP.CORPO.P7.SUR                  *1         *7/7 ( 4 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
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    AP.CORPO.P9.SUR                  *1         *6/8 ( 8 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P9.OESTE                 1          6/7 ( 7 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.P12.NORESTE              1          6/7 ( 7 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
    AP.CORPO.TERRAZA.NORTE           *11        *1/8 (23 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P1.NORTE                 11        *2/8 (20 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P1.SUR                   1         *1/7 (22 dBm) [22/19/16/13/10/7/4/4]
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      Transmit Power Assignment Mode................. AUTO
      Transmit Power Update Interval................. 600 seconds
      Transmit Power Threshold....................... -70 dBm
      Transmit Power Neighbor Count.................. 3 APs
      Min Transmit Power............................. -10 dBm
      Max Transmit Power............................. 30 dBm
      Transmit Power Update Contribution............. SNI..
      Transmit Power Assignment Leader............... WLC.MARTI.CORPO (172.17.250.50)
      Last Run....................................... 223 seconds ago
      TPC Mode....................................... Version 1
      TPCv2 Target RSSI.............................. -67 dBm
      TPCv2 VoWLAN Guide RSSI........................ -67.0 dBm
      TPCv2 SOP...................................... -85.0 dBm
      TPCv2 Default Client Ant Gain..................   0.0 dBi
      TPCv2 Path Loss Decay Factor...................   3.6
      TPCv2 Search Intensity......................... 10 Iterations
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    AP.CORPO.P11.OESTE               *40        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P11.NORTE               *36        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P11.SUR                 *40        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.NORESTE             *153       *2/8 (20 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.NORESTE              *161       *3/8 (17 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.SURESTE              *40        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P7.NORTE                *48        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.SURESTE             *36        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P10.SUROESTE            *149       *2/8 (20 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.SUROESTE             *36        *2/5 (11 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P6.NORESTE              *153       *2/8 (20 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P7.OESTE                *149       *3/8 (17 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P8.NOROESTE             *48        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P6.NOROESTE             *161       *2/8 (20 dBm) [23/20/17/14/11/8/5/2]
    AP.CORPO.P6.SURESTE              *36        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P6.SUROESTE             *40        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
    AP.CORPO.P12.SUROESTE            *36        *1/5 (14 dBm) [14/11/8/5/2/2/2/2]
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