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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
With pressure rising, city eyes overhaul of cell-antenna rules
With Palo Alto facing a flood of applications from telecommunications companies wanting to install new wireless antennas throughout city, elected leaders find themselves caught between new federal rules and concerned residents.[Friday, April 12, 2019]
To fight climate change, Palo Alto looks to boost electric cars, plant thousands of trees
Palo Alto plans to plant thousands of trees, accelerate the installation of more electric-vehicle chargers in local garages and -- at long last -- retire this summer the energy-sucking, sludge-burning incinerators in the Baylands as part of City Hall's renewed push toward environmental sustainability.[Thursday, April 11, 2019]
Palo Alto balks at buying former city manager's home
The Palo Alto City Council narrowly turned down on Monday night an opportunity to buy the home of former City Manager James Keene, despite arguments from three council members that the Downtown North home is both a good investment and a potential lure for future top managers.[Monday, April 8, 2019]
Stanford expels student in connection with college-fraud scheme
Stanford University has expelled a student who it determined had falsified his or her college application and who was connected to the nationwide college-admission fraud scheme, the university announced Tuesday.[Monday, April 8, 2019]
Bills to encourage housing density near transit advance in Senate
Two state bills that would allow more housing density in transit corridors cleared their first legislative hurdles this week, though each proposal will likely see significant changes before either becomes law.[Friday, April 5, 2019]
Palo Alto approves nearly $1 million contract for more downtown valets
With plans for a new downtown garage now in limbo, Palo Alto officials are looking to boost capacity at existing parking structures by hiring valets to park people's cars during busy lunchtime hours.[Thursday, April 4, 2019]
To ward off commuters, Old Palo Alto seeks parking limits
Fed up with Caltrain commuters and California Avenue employees who use their streets for free, all-day parking, residents in a section of Old Palo Alto have launched an effort to establish a Residential Preferential Parking program in their neighborhood.[Wednesday, April 3, 2019]
Palo Alto fixes zoning 'mistake,' invites legal challenge
The Palo Alto City Council adopted a law on Monday that gives owners of non-compliant downtown buildings greater flexibility to switch to other uses -- provided this conversion doesn't result in the loss of housing units.[Tuesday, April 2, 2019]
Lalo Perez, Palo Alto's retired CFO, dies
Lalo Perez, who retired last July as Palo Alto's chief financial officer after 33 years of public service, died last Wednesday after a four-year battle with cancer.[Tuesday, April 2, 2019]
Council opens the door for new Hotel Parmani
Palo Alto paved the way on Monday night for the demolition of Hotel Parmani, a 36-room motel on El Camino Real, and its reincarnation as a modern, 99-room hotel catering to Stanford Research Park clientele.[Monday, April 1, 2019]