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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
Council offers a lift to traffic-fighting nonprofit
Even though the City Council spent more than $500,000 to create the Palo Alto Transportation Management Association three years ago, it has been loath to contribute the $3.5 million that would be needed to shrink the number of solo drivers by 30 percent over three years.[Friday, February 24, 2017]
Palo Alto council looks to revise zoning code
Developers whose buildings will result in 100 or more new car trips during busy commute hours will be required to submit a plan for curbing their tenants' use of cars under a new rule that the Palo Alto City Council plans to adopt next week.[Thursday, February 23, 2017]
Video captures Fairmeadow burglary suspects
Palo Alto police are looking for two men who they believe stole jewelry and other valuables from a home in the Fairmeadow neighborhood earlier this month and who tried to burglarize another home on the same block, but gave up when they couldn't gain entry.[Wednesday, February 22, 2017]
Businesses slam planned changes to downtown parking program
As Palo Alto prepares to adopt new parking restrictions on downtown's residential streets, a growing crowd of dentists, merchants, business professionals and Channing House residents is rising up to protest the new rules, which they say will drive employees out of the city.[Wednesday, February 22, 2017]
Nature offers boost to stormwater campaign
Palo Alto officials could hardly have chosen a better week to start mailing out ballots for their campaign to raise fees for the city's stormwater system.[Tuesday, February 21, 2017]
Demolition and replacement of Brutalist building wins approval
One of the tallest and most distinct buildings on El Camino Real will be torn down and replaced with a more modern-looking office development under a proposal that won the approval of Palo Alto's Architectural Review Board on Thursday morning.[Thursday, February 16, 2017]
Report: More people leaving Silicon Valley than coming in
The 2017 Silicon Valley Index shows that the area's economy, despite a slight slowdown from 2015, continues to chug along and serve as a magnet for people from all over the world.[Friday, February 17, 2017]
Committee members slam council for paring down Comprehensive Plan
The City Council's abrupt decision to remove all programs from the city's guiding land-use document has left members of the community "rightfully confused and upset," six members of the Citizens Advisory Committee for the plan wrote in an open letter to the council.[Friday, February 17, 2017]
Expected rains delay anti-mosquito operation
With rain in the forecast for Thursday, Santa Clara County officials are postponing their scheduled larvicide operation against the winter salt marsh mosquitoes in the Palo Alto Baylands.[Tuesday, February 14, 2017]
Council not sold on changing zoning for El Camino housing project
Palo Alto's battle between its appetite for new housing and its general disdain for densification came to a head Monday night, when the City Council considered a plan to rezone an El Camino Real site for 21 condominiums.[Tuesday, February 14, 2017]