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SEATTLE - Seattle "for sale" signs may soon read: three bedroom, two bath with a walkability rating of 80.

A new Web site ranks Seattle's most walkable neighborhoods and hopes to make "walkability" a new real estate buzz word.

About 78 neighborhoods ranked by walkscore.com hopes to encourage health and saving the environment by stressing the importance of walkable neighborhoods. Criteria to rank in the study depends on how much you can skip using a car in your daily routine.

Criteria such as the nearest grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops and other amenities are used. A score of 90 or above is deemed a walker's paradise. Here's how Seattle's top walkable neighborhoods scored:

1. Pioneer Square (98)
2. Downtown (97)
3. First Hill (96)
4. Belltown (95)
Roosevelt (95)
6. Chinatown-International District (94)
South Lake Union (94)
University District (94)
9. Lower Queen Anne (93)
10. Wallingford (90)

Walkscore.com also includes a heat map. Green areas mark highly walkable neighborhoods, red unwalkable areas. A news conference at 10 a.m. Thursday is expected to release more details about the study.