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 history of racism in cities and development persists today even though red lining and racist covenants on property are no longer legal.
This train is delayed: The Seattle Transit Blog has 9 ideas to improve transit. An economic and equity case is made for political support of Sound Transit 3. Capitol Hill Seattle highlights the last run of the Metro 47. The First Hill Streetcar is delayed thanks to the manufacturer, but...
Freshly painted parklet goodness, that's what we spotted a few weeks ago. We got curious about these alien markings in the street and decided to checked out the fading, bluish website link. And, we were delighted to find out that much more is in store for these parking spaces than just the painted etchings...
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Community Transit made an excellent observation that we put so much emphasis on fixing potholes and repairing streets, but broken sidewalks and playgrounds get the shaft. Maybe it's time to give attention to other public facilities.
If all goes to plan, Seattle will soon have another woonerf making its way to a street near you. Vulcan lodged two related project proposals in South Lake Union along 8th Avenue N back in October 2013. The project went through a series of design reviews which analyzed alternatives for a Green...
Service changes for Community Transit begin today, and in this round, the agency is adding new service hours. New annual services will including 7,500 beginning today with another 25,000 hours slated to be added in 2015. Next year may see the reintroduction of Sunday service, better evening frequencies and...
Alt-transpo: Seattle is changing the conversation on the value of streetcars and how to build them. Some new and interesting station designs for Amtrak's future Tacoma station. King County Metro Transit's budget has some interesting details for the next two years, especially if you're a fan of new buses!...
It's the end of September, which means another set of service changes for King County Metro Transit. But this service change is unlike all those that came before it. This isn't just a service revision of minor schedule and stop changes or restructuring of routes. This service change is bigger than that, and...