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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
Music school faces possible shutdown
For more than a decade, the New Mozart School of Music has helped to Palo Alto's aspiring pianists unleash their inner Wolfgang Amadeuses. Now, the school is facing the music.[Thursday, June 22, 2017]
City banks on cameras to help deter suicides on Caltrain tracks
Palo Alto city officials are shifting their focus from human monitors stationed at the tracks to computer monitors broadcasting camera footage at a distant site.[Wednesday, June 21, 2017]
Palo Alto to raise water and refuse rates
The drought may be over, but Palo Alto's water forecast shows rates going up every year for the next decade, starting with a 4 percent increase that will kick in on July 1.[Tuesday, June 20, 2017]
Rate hikes aim to shake up Palo Alto's parking scene
Commuters to downtown and California Avenue could be in for an eye-popping shock on July 1, the start of the new fiscal year, when fees for parking lots and garages reach new heights.[Friday, June 23, 2017]
Southgate parking program gets green light
The City Council voted to create a Residential Preferential Parking program in Southgate, a residential neighborhood next to Palo Alto High School where students and staff are known to park.[Monday, June 19, 2017]
Plan for 'car-light' development on El Camino draws mixed reviews
Few projects epitomize the hopes of Palo Alto's housing advocates and the anxieties of the city's land-use watchdogs as clearly as a four-story housing project proposed on El Camino Real.[Saturday, June 17, 2017]
City, school district move toward new Cubberley vision
An effort by city and school officials to redevelop Palo Alto's sprawling Cubberley Community Center made some concrete progress this week when both sides endorsed a path for crafting new vision for the 35-acre complex.[Friday, June 16, 2017]
Planning commissioners slam City Council for 'artificial' deadline
The Palo Alto City Council rejected the Planning and Transportation Commission's request for more time in reviewing the city's land-use constitution, the Comprehensive Plan.[Thursday, June 15, 2017]
Palo Alto moves to extend ban on outdoor pot growth
Outdoor cultivation of cannabis will remain illegal in Palo Alto for at least another year-and-a-half under a proposal that a City Council committee approved Tuesday night.[Wednesday, June 14, 2017]
New parking restrictions on the way in Southgate
Residents of the Southgate neighborhood would be required to obtain permits to park on the streets outside their homes under a program that the City Council is scheduled to approve on Monday night.[Wednesday, June 14, 2017]