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.
For nearly six decades, McDonald's has called the northwest corner of Madison Street and Minor Avenue home. But all that is soon to change. Development company Holland Partner Group has teamed up with Ankrom Moison Architects, Inc. to redevelop the 15,360 square foot lot. Holland has a vision for 17-story mixed-use building...
Another Belltown surface parking lot will soon meet its doom. In its place, The Natasha (aka 2134 Western Avenue) will rise up as a modern, eight-story mixed-use buildings. Plans for the structure show seven floors of residential over one story of commercial space. The project is located on the southeast corner of...
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Waiting for Azulejos by cityzenprod on Vimeo.
An artistic video of Lisbon, Portugal showing the city in color and beauty.
Highspeed opposition: The current arguments being made against Texas' private highspeed rail project are fascinating.
Better design: The UK is rolling out new pylon designs for electric power grids to reduce visual impacts.
New parking meters: Seattle has some high-tech parking meters to replace the aging ones across the city.
Housing imbalance:...
Seattle could be on the cusp of better parking solutions. After a year of studying policy options, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) released a set of preliminary recommendations yesterday to address residential parking demand across the city. For instance, new development in...
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Volvo Lifepaint by Volvo on Youtube.
Volvo has devised a paint that people bicycling can add to help be bright in the dark. Although Mikael Colville-Andersen at Copenhangenize has a strong take on the product.
Build it and they will come: Copenhagen is planning to build nearly 8,000 bicycle parking spaces at the city's central train station.
Save Cascades: If Oregon doesn't pony up some more money, the Portland-to-Eugene train by Amtrak Cascades could disappear. Tell legislators to save it.
Create land trusts: How community land...
Pronto! Cycle Share is turning half a year old next week. Can you believe it!? So far more than 87,000 miles have been clocked on the 500 bikes roaming around Seattle. Pronto! also gets to boast that 46,000+ trips have been made on them with thousands of riders (2,400 of...