Archive for September, 2008

We’re excited that the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge guidelines now include using Walk Score to aide in site selection. The GBC recommends not building within the 100 year flood plain “unless part of an existing historic community core developed prior to 1945, or a location classified by Walk Score (www.walkscore.com) with a minimum rating of 70.”

We’ve also had a number of people mention to us that Walk Score might be an easy way to calculate the Community Connectivity credit in the LEED Green Building Rating System.

While attending the ProWalk/ProBike Conference here in Seattle, I heard from two different people that saw Walk Score being used to market properties — one was a flyer being distributed in the box on the for sale sign in front of a house. Another person saw it in a glossy print brochure for a high end home.

Are other people seeing Walk Score used to market properties?