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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
In Professorville, builders are urged to look to history for guidance
Professorville has always held a special place among Palo Alto's dozens of neighborhoods -- a thriving section of downtown that doubles as a national historic landmark. On Monday, the City Council is set to adopt new guidelines aimed at protecting area's historic character from the impacts of new development.[Saturday, September 10, 2016]
New plan reflects changing vision for prominent El Camino site
One year after Palo Alto swiftly shut down a plan to construct an office building at the busy intersection of El Camino Real and Page Mill Road, officials are preparing to weigh in on a new concept for the central site: a 60-unit housing complex aimed at young professionals.[Friday, September 9, 2016]
Changes proposed for downtown's parking program
By most accounts, Palo Alto's yearlong experiment with permit parking on downtown's residential streets has been a mixed success, with some blocks finally experiencing relief after years of chronic curbside congestion. On Tuesday, the City Council tried to address some of the program's most glaring deficiencies when it endorsed a slew of changes.[Wednesday, September 7, 2016]
New plan for animal shelter concerns city workers
As Palo Alto braces for the next chapter for its aged but popular animal shelter, city workers who staff the East Bayshore Road facility are increasingly wondering what role -- if any -- they'll get to play.[Wednesday, September 7, 2016]
Man sought in robbery near Nordstrom
Palo Alto police are searching for a man who they say ripped a purse off a woman's shoulder in a Stanford Shopping Center parking lot on Monday afternoon before fleeing the scene in a waiting vehicle.[Tuesday, September 6, 2016]
Board still not sold on contentious University Avenue project
Over the past three years, Elizabeth Wong's tortuous road toward winning approval for a new four-story development on University Avenue has tested the patience of all involved. That continued on Thursday, when the Architectural Review Board considered the latest design and found it lacking.[Friday, September 2, 2016]
Political outsiders look to shake up status quo in council race
John Fredrich, Danielle Martell, Leonard Ely and Stewart Carl are vying with seven others for four seats on the council in November. None of them have served on local commissions or are regular speakers at council meetings, but each believes that he or she offers a fresh perspective that is sorely needed to address today's challenges.[Friday, September 2, 2016]
Plan to raise storm-drain fees flows forth in Palo Alto
A proposal in Palo Alto to raise storm-drain fees and create a new structure for funding future improvements advanced this week, when the City Council formally approved a staff plan for a mail-only election.[Thursday, September 1, 2016]
Palo Alto to explore new policies for long-term growth
With Palo Alto's housing shortage now a topic of national attention and residents increasingly calling for more housing options, City Council members agreed Monday night that two more-extreme scenarios for future growth should be evaluated as part of the city's process of creating an official vision that will guide it until 2030.[Tuesday, August 30, 2016]
New partner proposed for Palo Alto animal shelter
Palo Alto's cramped but popular animal shelter would be preserved, renovated and turned into a "no kill" zone under a proposed partnership between the city and the nonprofit group Pets in Need, which would manage the facility.[Friday, August 26, 2016]