We have been working over the past few years to try to come to some solution about our community lighting. We want everyone to be able to see and be seen but we also don’t want the place to look like a penitentiary.
SITUATION
The community lighting is rather old. Over the years the past Boards have removed failing lollipop lampposts rather than repair them. We believe there used to be one lollipop lamp per unit so 136 of them. We have architectural plans from when the community was built in 1979 but the pages showing the electrical grids are missing. We have checked with the town of Jupiter but there doesn’t seem to be any of the missing pages on file.
The most recent attempt to do an inventory we counted 37 of them – not including the two at the entrance. The lights are all on sensors to come on with the sun going down and go off at dawn. These sensors are also quite old.
We have labeled the tall Streetlights as SL1 to SL7. The smaller numbers are the locations of the lollipop lamps.
SOLUTIONS
On Saturday April 12th 2025 a long link of lollipop lights and two streetlights went out right at sunset. On April 15th Ocean Electric was called and they repaired the light sensor that stopped working.
At the beg
During the month of March 2025 several community tenants volunteered to replace the old failing streetlight tops on the three tall lamps that were out. These are all working now. All 7 of our tall stretlamps are now on.
Recently the Board has begun replacing the broken moon shaped tops with a more classic look. The two lamps at the entrance have already been done so everyone can experience what they look like. These were replaced in August of 2023. A few other broken tops had been replaced in October and November of 2024. One was a stubborn repair on the main road in front of 2127 – but it was finally fixed April 2025.
One of the extra benefits of these lamp tops is they all have their own light sensor so even if the main controlling sensor gets triggered each lamp will only come on when its sensor is triggered.
One idea that has been floated is to “up light” all our beautiful Oak Trees throughout the community. Therein presenting a dramatic effect and gaining more indirect light. The Board voted to approve the installation of a few of these so everyone can see the results. We have all the parts needed but we have not installed the first few yet. We hope to have that done by June.