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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
Planning panel backs downtown roof decks
Roof decks would be allowed at some of downtown Palo Alto's tallest buildings under a proposal that the city's Planning and Transportation Commission endorsed on Wednesday night.[Thursday, October 11, 2018]
To spur housing production, Palo Alto rewrites zoning rules
Palo Alto officials are preparing for a significant revision to the city's zoning code with the goal of lowering some of the highest hurdles facing housing developers.[Thursday, October 11, 2018]
Divisive downtown project suffers setback
Elizabeth Wong's plan to build a four-story mixed-use building on a University Avenue site that once housed the popular Shady Lane boutique is facing a fresh setback from the Architectural Review Board.[Thursday, October 11, 2018]
Eric Filseth
When Eric Filseth ran for Palo Alto City Council four years ago, he talked about limiting office development, fixing downtown's parking congestion and preserving Palo Alto's suburban feel.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Cory Wolbach
On July 30, City Councilman Cory Wolbach shocked Palo Alto's political world by doing two things: throwing his support behind a citizen effort to curb office development and staying completely silent.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Tom DuBois
For Tom DuBois, the past four years on the Palo Alto City Council have been the best and worst of times, in that order.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Alison Cormack
If elected to the Palo Alto City Council, candidate Alison Cormack said she would apply her measured, research-heavy approach to tackling the city's most urgent problems.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Pat Boone
As a newcomer to the Palo Alto City Council's race, Pat Boone is quick to admit that he is still refining his positions on city issues.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Election 2018: Council contenders
This year's five candidates for Palo Alto City Council offer a blend of the familiar and the new.[Friday, October 12, 2018]
Palo Alto officer disciplined for hitting neighbor's car
A Palo Alto police officer faced criminal charges last year after investigators concluded that he repeatedly denied hitting his neighbor's parked car with his own personal vehicle to officers from another agency.[Friday, October 5, 2018]