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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
Peninsula cities prepare for battle over contentious housing bill
Mayors up and down the Peninsula have characterized state Senate Bill 50 as an affront to local control, a characterization the bill's author, state Sen. Scott Wiener, strongly rejects.[Friday, March 29, 2019]
Housing's troubled history of discrimination
For proponents of State Senate Bill 50, the proposal isn't just a way to get California out of its worsening housing crisis.[Friday, March 29, 2019]
Planned Churchill closure for rail redesign drives traffic fears
As Palo Alto moves closer to picking a new design for its four rail crossings, residents are warning that one of the more promising solutions -- the closure of Churchill Avenue to cars -- may create traffic jams in nearby neighborhoods.[Wednesday, March 27, 2019]
Community Notebook: Palo Alto invites public to weigh in on rail redesign
Palo Alto residents will have a chance to give input Wednesday night on one of the most ambitious projects in the city's recent history: the potential reconstruction of four rail crossings.[Tuesday, March 26, 2019]
Palo Alto takes bike-share program on another spin
After failing to advance its bike-share and electric scooters program last year, Palo Alto is now preparing to try again through a yearlong extension of its nascent bike-share and electric scooters program.[Thursday, March 21, 2019]
Palo Alto punts decisions on rail redesign, adds $500K to budget
Palo Alto's tortuous effort to choose new designs for its four rail crossings shifted yet again this week when City Council members agreed to push the timeline for a decision until October and to set up a new working group to consider the big question of funding.[Wednesday, March 20, 2019]
Palo Alto prepares for sea level rise
With rising tides threatening to submerge the Palo Alto Baylands by mid-century, city officials agreed on Monday that they need to explore new barriers -- both physical and legislative -- to protect coastal areas from sea level rise.[Tuesday, March 19, 2019]
Parents, students rally to demand support from Stanford
With Stanford University and Palo Alto Unified School District preparing to launch negotiations, dozens of parents, teachers and school district volunteers gathered in front of City Hall on Thursday afternoon to demand that the university fully address the impacts of its expansion on local schools.[Friday, March 15, 2019]
County calls on Stanford to ramp up staff housing
Santa Clara County may require Stanford University to nearly quadruple the number of housing units it has to produce for faculty and staff to secure permission for its ambitious campus-expansion plan.[Friday, March 15, 2019]
Palo Alto approaches key decision on grade separation
Faced with a series of expensive, complex and, in some cases, deeply unpopular options for redesigning four local rail crossings, Palo Alto officials are preparing to invest more money and time into their lagging effort to choose a preferred alternative for the ambitious project.[Thursday, March 14, 2019]