Form Based Codes are Radical Green

"I can’t tell if the SmartCode is a radical, green, left-wing document or a developer-friendly, market based right-wing one,”...

...it's both. ... Communities aren't going to get a green code implemented, or any code, without that code appealing to developers...

I'd go so far as to state that developers using the SmartCode are the radical greenies of this decade. The market-based tendency of developers to optimize density on their sites, while giving buyers the mixed-use, human-scaled, walkable neighborhoods they seek, is in fact both radical and green. Radical, because we need comprehensive zoning reform, a serious challenge to the status quo, to allow such development. And green because those development patterns do more to preserve the health of the environment than any technological innovation is likely to deliver. -Sandy Sorlien