Walkable Streets

Provide appealing and comfortable pedestrian street environments in order to promote pedestrian activity. Promote public health through increased physical activity.
Rating Systems and Code Applicable Products/Systems
LEED NC LEED S LEED CS LEED H LEED R LEED ND CHPS CALGreen
PC 14 * PC 14 * PC 14 * PC 14 * NPDp1

NPDc1
1-12 Pts
Supportive of strategy goals.
  • Naturally demarcate zones
  • Texture and pattern for awareness and attractiveness

Interlocking concrete pavements (ICPs) naturally invoke reduced speeds, demarcating zones by texture, color, and pattern.

Excellent for creating woonerfs, or home zones (an area, usually residential, where motorists and other users share the street without boundaries such as lanes and curbs). Woonerfs are included in equivalent provisions for walking.

ICPs "feel" like a focal-point, intimately detailed and purposed for foot traffic, and define inviting common areas and gathering places.

* Pilot Credit 14: Walkable Streets is available in the LEED Pilot Credit Library; an additional point may be earned as IDc1, Path 3 Pilot Credit.

Green Credits & Strategies : Walkable Streets