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 Sound Transit Capital Committee will meet today to determine the fate of station names for four stations on the Lynnwood Link extension. Earlier...
The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) has adopted two new Director's Rules. One regulates the application of interior dimensional requirements for Small...
Seattle is on its way to getting its own income tax. Yesterday, an ordinance to institute a tax on high-income earners passed out of...
Stephanie Meeks, President and CEO of the Nation Trust for Historic Preservation, leads an insightful half-hour discussion on the past and future of cities...
Big boost: Wages in Washington state see a big boost year-over-year boost ($), the largest since 2007.
Uncertain fate: District advocates in Everett are locked in...
Community Transit recently released a draft of the agency's Transit Development Plan (TDP) that charts out transit operations and investments through 2022--and arguably 2023. The...
The Seattle income tax on high-income earners has formally been introduced to the City Council. The proposed income tax would generally kick in at...
Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow of the Brookings Institution, talks about the geography of poverty in America.
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