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.
2016 promises to be a very busy year for urban planning issues in Seattle. In the first meeting of the new Planning, Land Use,...
Choo choo!: The First Hill Streetcar will get up and running today around noon.
New refuge: The Seattle City Council approves a third homeless encampment and...
The University of Washington (UW) will soon be embarking a major makeover of the Burke Museum, an institution highly respected for its collection of...
Twelve schools across Seattle will see safety improvements in 2016 as part of the city-wide Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program. As the name...
Workers' rights: A new initiative could bring new statewide minimum wage and sick leave benefits to all workers.
Going to be unreal: Tom over at Seattle...
Backyard cottages (or detached accessory dwelling units) aren't exactly a new thing in Seattle. But for a long time, construction of new ones wasn't...
At the edge of a station pit in Roosevelt, regional transportation leaders met for a momentous press conference on major progress that Sound Transit...
Have you ever wanted to see where new transit investments are planned or underway in North America? Well now you can. With the help...