The Green Code is a City-wide form-based Unified Development Ordinance.

In this multi-phased effort, Camiros worked with the City of Buffalo to craft a Land Use Plan based upon principles of community sustainability, equity, and responsible growth and economic development. Following creation of the Plan, Camiros worked with the City to write the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), the implementation tool for Buffalo’s vision.

The UDO establishes rules related to the form, use, and character of development for the different zones within the City, and their relation to the public realm through thoroughfare development regulations rooted in complete streets principles. The highly graphic ordinance contains a series of illustrations that show the intended development outcomes within each of the zones based on maintaining established character and integrating principals of sustainability, both at the site and neighborhood scale.

In December 2016, the Buffalo City Council unanimously approved the UDO, becoming the third city to adopt a city-wide, form-based zoning code, and the first to abolish minimum required parking across the entirety of its districts.