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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
Music school faces civil suit over sexual abuse of student
School of Rock, a private music school in Midtown Palo Alto, is facing a civil lawsuit stemming from incidents of sexual abuse against a 15-year-old student by one of its instructors in 2017.[Friday, January 17, 2020]
Palo Alto boosts affordable-housing project with $10.5 million loan
A 59-apartment affordable-housing project known as Wilton Court got a $10-million lifeline on Jan. 13 from the city of Palo Alto -- after expected state funding to build the complex didn't come through.[Friday, January 17, 2020]
Condo owners upset as board approves their new neighbor: A five-story hotel
Despite heavy pushback from residents, a proposal for a hotel on the southern edge of Palo Alto scored a significant win Thursday when the Architectural Review Board threw its support behind the project.[Thursday, January 16, 2020]
Group tasked with cutting rail-redesign options instead adds 3 more
When Palo Alto established a committee last year to work on a proposed redesign of local rail crossings, the goal was to winnow down the menu of options. Instead, much like the panel, the list of possibilities has only expanded.[Thursday, January 16, 2020]
'There's more work to be done': County pushes to find safe parking for people living in cars
The Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to help find new sites in Palo Alto and Mountain View for those without permanent homes.[Tuesday, January 14, 2020]
Seeking grants, Palo Alto designates downtown as ripe for growth
Despite a shared desire to direct new development toward the transit-rich downtown area, members of the Palo Alto City Council clashed on Monday over the role that regional planning agencies should play in shaping that vision.[Tuesday, January 14, 2020]
Feeling Sacramento pressure, Palo Alto eases rules for new 'granny units'
Prodded by new state laws, the Palo Alto City Council voted Monday to further relax local rules pertaining to accessory dwelling units, which are starting to proliferate around the city.[Tuesday, January 14, 2020]
Palo Alto OKs letting people live in cars in parking lots of houses of worship
Responding to a growing population of vehicle dwellers on neighborhood streets, Palo Alto on Monday became the latest Peninsula city to launch a "safe parking" program.[Tuesday, January 14, 2020]
Palo Alto considers luring new development, state funding to downtown
In a bid to boost development around the city's main transit hub through state funding, the City Council will consider on Monday dedicating the downtown area as its preferred location for growth.[Friday, January 10, 2020]
Police: Bloomingdale's burglars break into store, flee with $83K in stolen goods
Palo Alto police are looking for burglars who brazenly broke into Bloomingdale's early Tuesday morning and made off with about $83,000 worth of merchandise, including jewelry and watches.[Thursday, January 9, 2020]