Community Profile

Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Chelsea Reed

City Councilmember

Pledge Summary

Palm Beach Gardens is a wonderful city located in southeast Florida, with a population of close to 60,000 residents. With average sunny temperature of 74 degrees, the City of Palm Beach Gardens offers a vibrant Florida lifestyle with lush, tropical ambiance. Our residents have local access to art and cultural opportunities, outstanding dining opportunities, resorts, shopping areas that include the finest stores. With a wide variety of gated and non-gated communities that include everything from beautiful villas to estate homes, the Gardens has a neighborhood that is bound to feel like home. Palm Beach Gardens has a City Council that responds to the needs of residents, a municipal golf course carefully intertwined among environmentally sensitive lands, a Tree City USA designation, an award-winning Parks and Recreation Department, and world-class public art. Palm Beach Gardens continues to set the standard as a Signature City.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening ▸

Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to engage neighborhoods and homeowners' associations within the community to increase awareness, support community unity around a common mission, and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.

Systems Change ▸

Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
City Councilmember Chelsea Reed	2021	3/23/2021		View Pledge

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