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.
Elected officials have approved another 1,500 car parking stalls at select stations along the Sounder S Line. This capital investment is astronomically expensive for...
Community Transit has released a final proposal to broadly restructure bus service in response to the Lynnwood Link light rail extension and boost service...
King County Metro is back with its next phase of the Lynnwood Link bus restructure process. The proposal focuses on feeding riders to new...
Geography by Geoff gets into the weeds about the effort to bring high-speed rail to Cascadia. Covering the history of rail here in the...
Housing abundance is returning as a big policy issue in the 2023 Washington legislative session. On Tuesday, Rep. Jessica Bateman (D-Olympia) filed her eagerly-awaited...
Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the topic of whether or not on-street parking is really the best use of limited street space....
Amtrak Cascades will be the first Amtrak-branded service in the country to feature new "Airo" trainsets in 2026, which are part of a larger...
Third places are a critical part of communities. They provide another space for people to be and mingle. But the suburbs and North American...