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.
Gut check: Should landlords get to use a “gut check” when picking tenants?
Blind spot: Streetsblog discusses the "environmentalist blind spot" on transportation.
Booming ridership: Ridership on...
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In this episode, City Beautiful covers the topic of the Olympics. The Olympics are often known for overpromising long-term investment and being highly disruptive...
Last week, the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development released draft changes for the South Lake Union design guidelines. That guidelines have been...
One way or another, high-speed rail looks poised to get a deeper study in Washington state. On Wednesday, transportation committees of the Washington State Legislature...
Changes could be headed to Broadway this summer and transit riders are poised to benefit. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is considering several...
Yesterday, the Seattle City Council approved a contract rezone in the Westlake neighborhood paving the way for a new mixed-use project break ground in the...
All public high school students in Seattle will receive free transit passes under a plan to encourage transit ridership both in the immediate and...
Last week, Sound Transit formally kicked off its scoping process or the West Seattle and Ballard light rail extensions. The process is important because it will...