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.
The City of Burien has signed off on a proposal by King County Metro Transit to bring RapidRide service to the community by 2020....
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Take a gander at 16 amazing metro stations from around the world. This video shows that transit doesn't have to be a bland experience....
Seattle has a citywide goal of 30% tree canopy coverage by 2037. While the city is 2% short of that goal according to the...
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved several actions related to land use and public space. These included revisions to the Seattle Building Code...
Seattle, a city of 348,000 homes, has built just 579 backyard cottages since 1994, the year the region also enacted an urban growth boundary...
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How do we design for inclusive urban public spaces and life? Jeff Risom from Gehl explains this paradigm.
Free the transit: Paris could be on the way to having the largest urban fare-free public transit zone in the world while Estonia will go fare-free...
The confluence of three streets in the heart of Ballard has long been a community concern. Technically a five-way intersection, Leary Ave NW meets...