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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
Palo Alto to explore new laws to spur affordable housing production
With housing production falling well short of their goals, City Council members clashed and compromised Monday over the best way to support residents whose incomes make it impossible to live in town.[Tuesday, September 24, 2019]
Plan to reuse, sell wastewater picks up steam in Palo Alto
Touting the environmental benefits of treating and reusing wastewater, the Palo Alto City Council expressed high hopes Monday for a proposed deal with Valley Water that would transform local effluent into a money-making commodity.[Monday, September 23, 2019]
Firefighters sue to bring back binding arbitration
Palo Alto's largest firefighters union is waging a legal battle to bring back a law that required contract disputes between the city and its public-safety unions to be settled via binding arbitration.[Friday, September 20, 2019]
Palo Alto looks to sell, treat — and possibly ask people to drink — wastewater
In an effort to open the spigot on recycled water in the region, Palo Alto and Santa Clara Valley Water are exploring a deal that would transfer the city's wastewater to south county for treatment and, ultimately, consumption.[Thursday, September 19, 2019]
Business tax proposal moves ahead in Palo Alto
Palo Alto forged ahead Monday toward placing a business tax on the 2020 ballot when the City Council majority signaled its support for charging local companies to pay for big-ticket transportation projects.[Tuesday, September 17, 2019]
New rule on electric equipment sparks neighborhood opposition
Palo Alto residents who enjoy the benefits of having all electric equipment underground in their neighborhood and who wish to keep it that way for the foreseeable future will have to pay for that privilege under the city's new rules.[Monday, September 16, 2019]
Two council members call for greater focus on 'affordable' housing
Palo Alto's efforts to encourage more housing should primarily focus on maintaining diversity and addressing the needs of low-income residents, two City Council members are arguing in a new memo.[Tuesday, September 17, 2019]
Palo Alto banks on county funds to plan for rail redesign
Palo Alto's ever-shifting plans for redesigning its rail corridor are about to get a welcome boost from the Santa Clara VTA, the agency in charge of distributing funds for rail improvements from a 2016 tax measure.[Friday, September 13, 2019]
Board questions historic analysis of Castilleja expansion
As Castilleja School moves ahead with its expansion plan, project proponents often cite the institution's history. But on Thursday, it was the project's opponents who touted the school's ties to history.[Friday, September 13, 2019]
Palo Alto's push for more housing spreads to San Antonio
Facing a shortage of housing proposals, Palo Alto is now considering a move that would have been virtually unthinkable just a few years ago: allowing dense apartment buildings on San Antonio Road.[Wednesday, September 11, 2019]