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.
Climate's on the agenda: President Joe Biden has pledged a 50% cut in carbon emissions by 2030 ($). China and the United States have...
As a supplement to last year's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, additional federal funding has come through providing local transit agencies...
https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k
There is a big misnomer that Houston doesn’t have zoning and somehow must be a free market dream for land use. But that perception...
https://youtu.be/Yky_tMdOvrQ
At this month's meetup, Seattle mayoral candidate Andrew Grant Houston ("Ace" for short) stopped by to talk about his policy platform. Ace is a...
In some encouraging news yesterday, Sound Transit shared an updated financial outlook for Sound Transit 3 (ST3). Revised projections show that the program affordability...
The pandemic has meant a big curtailment in passenger rail service for Washington. Right now there's only thrice weekly long-distance service to Los Angeles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqMgUoNKkU
King County Metro will construct a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E and is still in the bidding phase for construction. The...
As the Puget Sound Region comes out of a year's-long pandemic hibernation, local agencies are hard at work improving the wayfinding system for people...