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About Gennady
Gennady Sheyner has been covering Palo Alto since 2008. His beats include City Hall, with a special focus on housing, utilities and transportation. He also covers regional politics for the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online and its sister publications. He has won awards for his coverage of elections, land use, business, technology and breaking news.A native of Ukraine, Gennady grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in English and from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. Prior to joining Embarcadero Media, he spent three years covering breaking news and local politics for The Waterbury Republican-American, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. He is a massive fan of English football, marathons and churros.
Stories by Gennady
New plans for redeveloping Ventura 'go big' on housing. Some say, too big.
For housing advocates, new ideas for redeveloping the Ventura neighborhood in Palo Alto are a reasonable approach to addressing the city's housing crisis. For many neighbors, they are a cause of deep anxiety.[Friday, January 31, 2020]
Contentious housing bill SB 50 dies on the Senate floor
A last-gasp attempt to resurrect state Senate Bill 50, a divisive housing bill that would have required cities to relax zoning standards for residential developments, fizzled on the Senate floor on Thursday morning.[Wednesday, January 29, 2020]
Caltrain electrification is coming to Palo Alto. What should you expect?
Caltrain's plan to electrify its trains is about to arrive in Palo Alto, where crews are preparing to install nearly 200 poles along the railroad tracks in the coming months.[Wednesday, January 29, 2020]
Learning from neighbors, Palo Alto prepares to adopt 'headcount' tax
Emboldened by recent survey results and examples from neighboring cities, Palo Alto's elected leaders agreed Monday to place a business tax based on employee count on the November ballot.[Monday, January 27, 2020]
Auditors slam plan to reform their office
A proposal to reform the City Auditor's Office is facing pushback and a threat of a lawsuit from employees of the department, which has been hobbled for years by leadership turnover and internal bickering.[Friday, January 24, 2020]
To fix housing shortage, city weighs the return of the controversial 'PC' zone
Stuck in a housing drought, city leaders are exploring more drastic actions to encourage home construction, including reviving a zoning tool that allows developers to construct taller and denser buildings.[Wednesday, January 22, 2020]
Despite time pressures, Palo Alto opts to study more rail design options
Palo Alto's never-ending effort to pick new designs for rail crossings got a little more complicated on Tuesday, when the City Council added two new options to the list.[Wednesday, January 22, 2020]
Palo Alto shooting victim dies from injuries
A man who was shot in the stomach at a south Palo Alto parking lot early Tuesday morning has died, police said. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information related to the shooting.[Tuesday, January 21, 2020]
Standard practice or 'misleading'? Mayor's official letter in support of SB 50 rankles council colleagues
With a passionate endorsement of Senate Bill 50, Palo Alto's new Mayor Adrian Fine set himself apart from most of his colleagues -- and ruffled some feathers in the process.[Monday, January 20, 2020]
Stanford student found dead at fraternity house identified
The Stanford University sophomore who was found dead at a the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house last Friday was Eitan Michael Weiner, son of a university professor and Stanford associate vice president, the university announced Monday.[Saturday, January 18, 2020]