JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Five Points for many is a premier shopping and dining destination in Jacksonville\u2019s Riverside area, but its popularity hasn\u2019t come without a fair share of problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe unfortunately have had some crimes, some break-ins,\u201d explained Cheryl Croft, the owner of Edge City and chairwoman for the Five Points Merchants Association. \u201cWe have a fairly consistent homeless population that makes our customers uncomfortable. They will be on the street. They may panhandle them, some of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Now, Jacksonville City Council member Jimmy Peluso and Five Points business owners are hoping to change all that, with city ordinance 2025-0539.<\/p>\n The ordinance establishes a special Five Points District<\/a>.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The city would collect assessment fees from business owners, the amount of which would be determined by a property\u2019s total heated square footage. <\/p>\n That money would then go into a funding pool to pay for collective security, blight removal, and infrastructure initiatives. The business owners themselves would help prioritize and set budgets for the projects.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cThe neighbors want to be able to come and access all these places and feel comfortable and safe as they do so,\u201d Croft said Tuesday ahead of the vote. \u201cSo I really think that we\u2019re coming up with a win-win situation for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n Peluso also acknowledged Tuesday that while the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office has helped Five Points stay secure, more security is needed, something Peluso and business owners hope the special district\u2019s funding will address.<\/p>\n \u201cThe JSO district we\u2019re in goes from Five Points all the way to Baldwin. So if it\u2019s an active day or an active evening, it\u2019s really tough to kind of keep folks in the Five Points area,\u201d Peluso said. \u201cSo this will help allow for Five Points to really kind of have assets at its disposal when it comes to security.\u201d<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Five Points for many is a premier shopping and dining destination in Jacksonville\u2019s Riverside area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18645,982,18644,18641,187,18640,18613,18642,6487,969,116,118,117,18638,18639,1872,634,6457,6455,18643,6491,7909],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-5_points","tag-action_news","tag-baldwin","tag-cheryl_croft","tag-city","tag-city_ordinance","tag-councilman","tag-edge_city","tag-five_points","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_city_council","tag-jimmy_peluso","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-logan","tag-logan_mcdonald","tag-peluso","tag-points","tag-riverside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}