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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
City may ask voters to help pay for new parks
Faced with a limited budget and nearly limitless ambitions for park improvements, Palo Alto officials are considering going to the voters for help in 2018.[Tuesday, May 23, 2017]
Suspect at large after downtown bank robbery
A downtown Palo Alto bank was robbed Monday afternoon by a man who police said passed a note to the teller and then fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash.[Monday, May 22, 2017]
Palo Alto seeks resident input on rail design
As Caltrain prepares to electrify its trains and potentially share space with the state's new high-speed rail system, Palo Alto is moving ahead with its own plans to address the impacts from the projects.[Saturday, May 20, 2017]
Embracing tech, but carefully
It's a problem most cities would envy. But job growth in Palo Alto -- a regional leader in both technology innovation and traffic frustration -- is as much a problem to be solved as a sign of prosperity.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
Driving away from cars
At its core, the city's transportation vision in the Comprehensive Plan rests on two objectives that both complement and contradict each other: make driving more pleasant; and get people to stop driving.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
A modest proposal
Public calls for more housing remained high after November, with hundreds of residents flocking to council hearings, signing petitions and penning emails urging the City Council to "go big" on housing.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
Cracks in the ceiling
For 40 years, almost all new buildings in Palo Alto had to be shorter than 50 feet in height. The invisible ceiling remains intact to this day and, much like in the past, it has its ardent supporters and detractors.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
Lifting the lid
The topic of whether the city should limit development to a fixed total square footage and, if so, what that cap should cover has been debated in Palo Alto for more than three decades.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
Comprehensive Plan coming into focus
As the "collective vision" under the Comprehensive Plan comes into focus, residents on both sides of the political divide are becoming increasingly engaged.[Friday, May 19, 2017]
FAA reviewing proposals to reduce airplane noise
The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing more than 100 recommendations that a committee of South Bay legislators drafted last year with the goal of reducing airplane noise in their communities, according to a statement from three congressional leaders.[Thursday, May 18, 2017]