Stephen Fesler

Stephen Fesler
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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 old Yesler Bridge reopened on Tuesday after a 16-month closure for a major rebuild and restoration effort. The Downtown Seattle bridge is a...
Seattle operates a performance-based on-street parking program in more than a dozen neighborhoods. The paid parking program uses a highly analytical approach to determine...
On Monday, the Seattle City Council received a policy briefing on recommendations to improve the safety of unreinforced masonry structures. The council also approved...
Food lot: A pilot program for food trucks in the Sea-Tac Airport cellphone lot has launched. Highly concentrated: Venture capital remains highly concentrated in just...
In this short video, Sam Sullivan, a former Vancouver mayor and British Columbian provincial legislator, highlights some of the possible benefits that urban density...
Sound Transit is threading together the planning work for light rail between West Seattle and Ballard via Downtown Seattle, despite the corridors destined to...
The makers of Transit, a multi-modal transportation information application (app) for smartphones, pushed out a modest but useful update this morning for dockless bikeshare....
A pedestrian overpass crossing a busy stretch of road in Crown Hill will stay. Local residents and advocates had pushed for the pedestrian overpass...