Walkable Neighborhoods exists to educate people about walkable neighborhoods and help them create or find these types of neighborhoods. We also sell homes and match prospective homebuyers to real estate agents that understand their desire to live in a truly walkable neighborhood.
Listed below are some of the people that help keep Walkable Neighborhoods afloat. Click on a name listed below to learn more about them.
Founder & Principal
Eric Fredericks
Real Estate Specialist
Dan Troxel
Contributors
Connie Gallippi
Lauren Michele
Mark Dempsey
Steve Sizemore
The Walkable Neighborhoods website is managed by Eric Fredericks.
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I live in a great walkable beach community in San Diego, CA called Pacific Beach. Because this area is so busy (with tourists and suburbanites), my family chooses never to on the weekends. Since we don’t need to drive to work, we just bike everywhere because everything is accessible including the beach, mom and pop restaurants (and a few small chains), boutique stores and a grocery store. It’s expensive to live here, and though we live in an old 1,000 SF cottage, we feel it’s for a better quality of life. Pacific Beach should be listed as a great walkable community.
Hi Angela, thanks for the comment. I was actually just in Pacific Beach a few weeks ago. You’re right, it is very walkable. Although, I was just passing through on the bus to La Jolla so I didn’t get to see as much as I would have liked to. Sounds like a great place to live, and right on the ocean! I am going to start compiling a list of great walkable neighborhoods someday. If I only had more time. I’d actually like to start a certification program like the Tree City USA or the All-American City program. Ours would be cooler though!
That’s a great idea, Eric. Compiling a list of walkable neighborhoods may encourage more people to form such neighborhoods. If the distance is beyond walking, one could at least ride a bike and still be withing a reasonable distance where it would not be necessary to drive a car. Our reliance on automobiles is out of control in this country and as a result, we have created our own monster to cope with which is reliance on OIL. I support walking and formation of neighborhoods where that would be possible. People might get to know others and become friendlier, as well.
The acronym is SHAPE safe, healthy, accessible, pleasant and efficient. So shape up your neighborhood. Palo Alto has created a walkable neighborhood with chokers and diverters on its streets.
I’m looking for walkable (and affordable)neighborhoods in the Chicago area. Any recommendations? Thanks.