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.
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The fight to make Washington, D.C. a state has been a long one. But the idea has been consistently brushed aside. Why do people...
The Federal Way Link light rail extension has officially broke ground. Sound Transit announced the milestone on Thursday, though with much less fanfare due...
Sound Transit hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship.
Joining 25 other transit agencies from...
More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took...
Service on the Amtrak Cascades corridor is likely to remain reduced for quite some time. One daily roundtrip between Seattle and Eugene will continue...
Washington eviction wave: A large wave of evictions are likely in much of Washington next month if existing state moratoriums expire.
Pipes blocked: Two major pipeline...
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In Paris, fake building facades are a surprisingly common urban feature to aesthetically hide certain infrastructure.
Washington's state transportation department is launching a temporary program that will make some lower-speed highways available to open streets and commercial uses during the...