UPDATE. Very important information.

This will be a brief short story.

Last evening was the long-awaited Second Reading of Ordinance No. 2019-04 amending “Chapter 23 ‘Land Development Regulations’ Section 23.1-12, ‘Definitions’, and Section 23.6-1, ‘Landscape Regulations’ and setting the Second Reading and Public Hearing for April 2, 2019”.

So what does all this mean to you? 

To learn more about what happened last evening click on this link for a blog post from yesterday.

Ordinance 2019-04 passed unanimously with no discussion at the Lake Worth Beach City Commission.

There was no public comment.

The public and City leadership is done with talking.

The process will begin educating the public about the newly adopted Landscape Regulations with a public relations campaign getting the word out. And maybe this public information campaign will be something like the highly successful information campaign in September/October 2018 when the City switched from single-stream recycling to double-stream recycling.

Do you recall the ‘Recycle-Mageddon’?

This was the spin reported by some in the press and news media warning of chaos and people wandering about the streets in complete confusion. However, each and every week outlets like The Lake Worth Herald just kept funneling out the facts.

The TV news vans showed up anyway and reporters from the Palm Beach Post and Sun Sentinel but they had trouble finding anyone to interview. All was just fine. Because the news from journalist Katie Pyzyk at WasteDive had broken through all the noise and nonsense too.

And this City and The Lake Worth Herald and many others worked hard to get the word out. When October 1st, 2018 rolled around the change came and went and there was nary a complaint. Then came Tuesday then Wednesday then Thursday then Friday.

The first week went off without a hitch. or a recycling bucket if you wish. And the program has been working as it was intended all along.

The End.