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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Develop a storefront improvement program. Recruit a credit union or minority-owned bank. Facilitate home repairs and improvements.

And ensure that future development does not displace residents.

Those are some of the recommendations laid out in the South Division Corridor Plan, a 170-page document that lays out a vision for future growth along a 3 mile stretch of Division Avenue between Wealthy and 28th streets. Last week, the Grand Rapids Planning Commission held a public hearing on the plan and sent it to the city commission for review.

Read more at: “Plan lays out new vision for aging Grand Rapids corridor“

The Buffalo Green Code was the co-winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award, presented at a ceremony for the 27th Annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Louisville, KY on Saturday, June 15, 2019.

Camiros worked with the City of Buffalo to craft a place-based Future Land Use plan to highlight desired land uses and form development patterns within each placemaking district. These districts were later translated into form-based zoning districts that were the basis for the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), later branded as the Buffalo Green Code. The Green Code emphasizes physical form rather than the separation of uses as its basic organizing principle. This highly graphic ordinance contains a series of illustrations that show the intended development outcomes within each of the form-based zones while maintaining established character and integrating principals of sustainability both on-site and at the neighborhood scale.

Read more at: “Buffalo Green Code receives national award”

More information on the Buffalo Green Code can be found on the City of Buffalo’s website: “Using the Unified Development Ordinance”