Stephen Fesler
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
Buyer's market: For the first time in four years, homes in Seattle are selling below list price as housing prices continue to crater ($).
Student housing...
Sound Transit is proposing a host of tweaks to service in the recently released 2019 Draft Service Implementation Plan. Several of the proposed changes...
King County Metro and Sound Transit are proposing a significant restructure to routes on the Eastside, which would affect communities stretching from Bellevue to...
Earlier this month, the U District Mobility Group released a station area mobility plan detailing short-, mid-, and long-term strategies to change how people...
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In this video, Dave Amos from City Beautiful talks about air rights and transfer of development rights through the lens of Grand Central Terminal,...
Give them stairs: Sound Transit has given up on the escalators at UW Station and plans to replacement them, perhaps with some stairs.
Corporate education:...
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In this video, RetroReport looks at slums and why fixing them is the key to cities in the future. To illustrate their point, they...
A healthy initiative: Initiative 1631 could save lives and improve health by reducing pollution.
Mass extinction: Is pedal-powered dockless bikeshare on its way to extinction?
Dividing...