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St. Augustine wants your help in revamping Downtown

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The city of St. Augustine is looking to revamp its downtown and wants your help doing so through a survey.

City officials are asking that residents fill out this survey online.

Action News Jax went throughout the city to get residents’ perspectives on what the city should tackle.

Many people say homelessness and even roads flooding on rainy days, and they all tell me they believe this can make downtown St. Augustine an even better place.

According to Jamie D Perkins with the city, they haven’t made any decisions yet on future plans for the city.

“We want to get an idea of what residents are interested in more versus what the city wants,” says Perkins.

The survey has questions like: “What is something you dislike or would like to improve within the St. Augustine historic area?”

Also, “What would most encourage you to visit St. Augustine more often?”

Perkins says they want to continue to address the parking and transportation blight in the city, but some neighbors I spoke with also have other ideas.

“The flooding, when it rains hard the water gets two-three feet deep in some of these streets downtown,” says Jeremy Smith.

Smith who lives in St. Augustine says flooding is a hassle when you have to go places.

He also says there are other problems that need to be addressed, and among those are the homeless.

“Especially down on St. George Street. The homeless sit out there all day. Can’t be good for the tourist that are all down there,” says Smith.

Brenden Rossburg agrees with smith, he says the city has to tackle homelessness

“Maybe some more shelters would help or some programs that would help the homeless people get back on their feet,” says Rossburg.

There will be an open workshop for community input.

It starts tomorrow at 2 p.m., concluding at 7 p.m., and it will be held in the Alcazar room in downtown St. Augustine.

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