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.
FB goes east: Facebook is buying REI's corporate digs in Bellevue's Spring District.
Marysville masterplan: Marysville wants feedback on what people think of the city...
On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met for another briefing on paused actions from the capital expansion program. Staff recommended executing $76.5...
https://youtu.be/sZHuZkUUYM4
Throughout America, "forever chemicals" are polluting waterways because they effectively cannot be broken down. Vox explains how that happened and what that means for...
Community Transit is charting two very different paths for service growth as local transit agencies grapple with the economic fallout of Covid. In the...
https://youtu.be/6IN4ZcZAUbA
Global climate change is brewing a crisis for growing coffee. As annual temperatures rise, coffee plants are being threatened with mass withering. The global...
Later this month, King County Metro will implement what is supposed to be a twice yearly service change--though the pandemic has forced volatile interim...
Slow start: Two years later, Minneapolis' zoning reform is slow to deliver on triplexes.
Over-talked narrative: The media is obsessed with the "death of the...
https://youtu.be/ZfYkd6_Kdno
Is there any credence to the skyscraper index in forecasting economic downturns? Bloomberg Citylab explores this debated theory.