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.
As a companion to Climate Town's crossover video with Not Just Bikes on American cities, suburbs, and climate, Not Just Bikes looks at how Dutch cities are designed to better fight climate change.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/02/17/midweek-video-the-suburbs-are-bleeding-america-dry/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfaCfLjpAHc
This month's meetup featured Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Rachel Smith. The Urbanist discussed the state transportation package and other legislative priorities with Smith.
Mount Baker Station: Community members want to activate the Mount Baker Station area.
Indigenous housing: Crosscut profiles a Chief Seattle Club housing project in Pioneer Square.
Bored to fail: San Jose's Seattle-esque subway expansion has hit another snag with another delay, possibly to 2034.
Inclusionary zoning: Philadelphia now has mandatory inclusionary zoning.
Increasing...
Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the topic of NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) and distills down what might be the driving forces of the philosophy. Amos discusses some of the common strategies of NIMBYism and the disproportionately negative impacts that NIMBYism can have.
This week’s Transpo Notes highlights include: repeal of King County's bike helmet law, return of cross-border Amtrak Cascades train service, preliminary report of King County Water Taxi expansion, Colman Dock construction progress, and Tacoma Link project woes.
King County bike helmet law repealed
On Thursday, the King County Board of Health...
Climate Town and Not Just Bikes join forces to talk about the suburbs: how they came to be, their environmental impacts, policies that create them, and alternatives to their prevailing housing approach.
Strip malls: Sightline dives into how strip malls could house a lot of people.
Revised estimates: The California high-speed rail got a little more pricey.
House New York: New York's state legislature is debating zoning changes for housing.
RapidRide J: Ryan Packer reports on the latest RapidRide J Line plans for bikes....
Reece Martin talks about the challenges that transit projects can face by some community interests who may oppose aspects of a project. Martin specifically looks to Toronto and Seattle as examples of this problem in North America.