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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 relaxes limit on office development
After two years of sluggish commercial growth, the Palo Alto City Council moved Tuesday to loosen the city's cap on office development so as to give builders more flexibility.[Wednesday, September 6, 2017]
Palo Alto commission backs ban on pot dispensaries
Legal marijuana may soon be the law of the land, but Palo Alto residents who expect to see a pot shop opening up in their neighborhood will likely be in for a buzzkill.[Wednesday, August 30, 2017]
Palo Alto mulls changes to annual office limit
Palo Alto's effort to limit office growth at three commercial zones is showing signs of success -- though not in a way that anyone on the council had envisioned.[Friday, September 1, 2017]
City Council backs ban on car idling
An effort in Palo Alto to pass a law barring cars from idling moved ahead on Monday night, when the City Council fully endorsed the new ordinance.[Tuesday, August 29, 2017]
El Camino plan offers hope to Palo Alto's housing advocates
With a mix of hope and anxiety, the Palo Alto City Council welcomed on Monday a proposal to bring 61 units of affordable housing to an El Camino Real site in the Ventura neighborhood.[Tuesday, August 29, 2017]
Palo Alto looks to curb 'idle' cars
The Palo Alto City Council will consider Monday night a colleagues memo urging a citywide ordinance banning cars from idling for more than a two to three minutes.[Friday, August 25, 2017]
Survey shows fewer downtown workers driving alone
Downtown Palo Alto's service workers are slowly shifting away from solo commuting, a recent survey shows: The rate of those who drive alone to their jobs has dropped from 80 percent in 2016 to 70 percent.[Thursday, August 24, 2017]
Audit finds errors in hundreds of water bills
Hundreds of water customers in Palo Alto received erroneous bills after the city failed to accurately record the size of their water meters, according to a new audit from the office of City Auditor Harriet Richardson.[Wednesday, August 23, 2017]
Council backs new vision for fiber network
Palo Alto's exhausting effort make ultra-high-speed internet broadly available took a new direction Monday night, when the City Council directed staff to design a system that would allow residents and businesses to plug into the growing network.[Tuesday, August 22, 2017]
Plan to transform animal shelter advances
Palo Alto's cramped but beloved animal shelter will be turned over to the nonprofit Pets in Need and ultimately replaced by a larger facility under an agreement that the City Council approved Monday night.[Tuesday, August 22, 2017]