Page 9 - Abacoa Community News - August '21

Abacoa, Page 9

NeigHbOrHOOd News Town Of Jupiter

A Garden Is More News

Than Just What You Eat! By Ilan Kaufer,

Jupiter Vice Mayor
T he Aba coa Porter Weed – This I hope you are
Community Garden plant is one of South having a great August,
also feeds more than Florida’s most popular and everyone enjoyed
humans! Yes, we have butterfly attractors. It has a fun summer! For all
rabbits that we deter but blue flowers appearing those with kids back
we also plant things to along upright, wavy in school, I hope it is a
attract good insects and stems. It’s a fast grower Monarch caterpillar great start to the school
good pollinators as well Atala caterpillar and also spreads easily. year! Please find below
as plants that provide It’s a source of nectar for some updates on recent
food and egg-laying butterflies and attracts Council activity.
sites that attract beautiful the gulf fritillary. Central Boulevard Road Changes
butterflies. Our garden Mexican Petunia As many of you are aware, Palm Beach County
ecologist and visionary – This perennial forms recently redesigned the intersection of Central
has added this limerick: many s talks w ith Boulevard and University. The new configuration
You eat, Eat, EAT Miss Atala butterfly beautiful blue flowers. It has caused some confusion and safety challenges. I
Caterpillar until you are attracts the gulf fritillary Monarch butterfly have received comments and concerns from many
a fatterpillar, then change also. of you and am working with our staff to provide that
yourself into a pupa information and recommendations to the county on
and check out madame what they should do to respond to resident concerns.
butterfly, how super. The Town traffic engineer has been in communication
Here are some of our with the county staff about resident concerns and
plants: provided specific requests based on his expertise aimed
Milkweed – The Gulf fritillary caterpillar at improving the safety of the intersection including,
only plant the monarch but not limited to: larger and more visible signage to
butterflies lay eggs on is reduce vehicle speed upon approach of the intersection,
the milkweed plant. It’s and changes to lane markings. The overall goal of the
because the leaves of this county project is to enhance safety at the intersection,
specific plant contain a and I will continue to provide your concerns to the
toxic chemical that protects county and provide information on changes they make
them from their predators. to address those concerns.
Milkweed can grow to 6 Building Recertification Proposal
inches and are hardy plants. In light of the tragedy at Surfside, in July I
Corky Stem Passion Gulf fritillary butterfly proposed that the Town staff work on developing
Vine – The flower is open recommendations for a process for the recertification
for only one day and spreads very easily! It attracts zebra Giant swallowtail and prickly ash of local buildings. Palm Beach County currently does
butterflies whose caterpillars are white with black spikes, not have a recertification process and it important that
and gulf fritillary which are brownish with black spikes. A Garden on page 12 we evaluate what processes should be in place to ensure
the structural integrity of local buildings. We should
work with other cities, the county, condo property
owner associations, engineering and construction
representatives, and all other impacted stakeholders
to ensure the safety and welfare of our residents and
businesses. I am grateful that my proposal received
support from my colleagues and our staff will be working
on bringing back recommendations to the Council. I look
forward to your feedback on this important topic.
School Crossings
With school starting up, please make sure to slow
down and obey speed limits in the school zones! With
so many families walking and biking to school, it is
important we all make sure to keep to those speed limits,
so everyone stays safe!
Thank you for keeping up to date on these activities.
Please make sure to follow me on social media on
Facebook at www.facebook.com/kauferfl and on Twitter
@CouncilorKaufer for more frequent updates. Please
reach out with any questions or comments. If you have
any comments, questions, or concerns, about these
initiatives or any other Town matters, please email me
at ilank@jupiter.fl.us.

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