Over the past two years the
Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning, its consultant team, and the community
have been diligently working on the Buffalo Green Code. This past June, over
400 residents attended neighborhood open houses, providing significant input
for the new Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). Based upon this input and the
thousands of comments received prior to these meetings, the consultants have
been busy preparing a draft of the UDO, and the City is now ready to start reviewing
the details.
Community
stakeholders are invited to work with officials over the next month and a half to thoroughly study
the draft UDO. They want volunteers to help them identify and smooth out rough
edges, and discuss policy concepts in the code in detail. They are forming groups to
study ten subject areas in the code:
Neighborhoods
Retail strips and centers
Industrial and office sites
Medical and educational
campuses
Open spaces and the
waterfront
Streets, parking, and access
The environment
Signs
Uses
Code Administration
If you have interest or
experience in any of these topics, and would like to review materials, provide
written comments, and participate in a follow-up session with other
stakeholders, please contact Christine Giambra from the Mayor’s Office of
Strategic Planning at cgiambra@city-buffalo.com or 851-4012.