Calabasas Environmental Forum: Butterflies in Bloom - 2/19/2026

City of Calabasas Environmental Forum / Public meeting · March 5, 2026

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Curtis Castle, Calabasas public works director, opened the forum, thanked attendees and named present city council members; framed the meeting as focused on local stewardship of open space, Las Virgenes Creek and the Santa Monica Mountains.

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City staff announced a standalone, mail-in sales-tax special election to be held in May to keep revenue local; later the city hosted an environmental forum, “Butterflies in Bloom,” where local experts described steep declines in western monarch populations, urged residents to plant native milkweed and nectar plants, and highlighted a Malibu Creek State Park native-garden project funded by a California State Park Foundation grant.

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