Buffalo Green Code receives award from the Congress for the New Urbanism

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.

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