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 Board of Directors will meet today at 1.30pm to approve a final version of the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) plan. While...
Sound Transit's contractor, JCM Northlink, quietly began boring the last leg of the Northgate Link extension this week. Their tunnel boring machine (TBM #1)...
Vox charts more than a half-century of highway building across America in under five minutes. The video dives into how American road building was...
Ground-high not sky-high?: Spokane Rising says that it's time to stem the tide of new skybridges in Spokane because they harm street-level activity.
Wrong approach: CityLab...
Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) released draft recommendations on the University District rezone and urban design proposal in late May. The...
Short-term vacation rentals have become an increasingly prominent feature of the urban environment in Seattle. Just three years ago, there were only a couple hundred Airbnb...
Last year, residents in the Central District spray painted four crosswalks in Pan-African flag colors on the heels of nearly a dozen Capitol Hill crosswalks getting...
A local group in New York City—ReThinkNYC—wants to remake the face of the urban rail network in the region. ReThinkNYC's premise comes down to...