EL PASO, Texas -- In an effort to revitalize Alameda Avenue, the city is launching a land-use study and wants input from residents and business owners in the area.

South-Central residents and business owners were invited to a meeting about the study and they were asked to fill out a survey for city officials to gather information from them. One of the main concerns that came up in the meeting is the large number of auto dealerships.

If you want to find an auto dealership in El Paso, all you have to do is drive down Alameda Avenue. A lot of El Pasoans think Alameda needs a facelift.

"There's a lot of car lots. We rather see less of those and more grocery stores," said Ana Duenez from the Lower Valley.

The concept of beautifying Alameda was born when the Medical Center of the Americas began to pick up steam. Pharmacies and restaurants are in the area but you can also find car lots and auto salvage shops too.

"I've seen Alameda go down in regards to the numerous car lots. We're zoned for the car lots but we can't ask these property owners to get rid of them," said Gene Gonzalez who's uncle owns a pharmacy on Alameda.

The city is getting ready to conduct a land-use study on a 10 mile stretch of Alameda from Boone Street to Americas Avenue. City representative Emma Acosta says ideally the city wants to create a zoning overlay that would restrict the number of car lots on Alameda. In other words, if a car lot moves, out the zoning overlay would not allow another car lot to move in. This would create another type of industry.

"We got our students who are coming in to the medical area there and all they see is used car lots and it's a bad impression for these out-of-town students," said Gonzalez.

Another concern brought up by residents is if Alameda is going to be revitalized why not expand it. But a TxDOT representative told them that's not part of the plans.