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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
New bikeways eyed for Embarcadero Road
New bikeways would roll out alongside one of the busiest stretches of Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto as part of a road-improvement project that the city's Planning and Transportation Commission heartily endorsed Wednesday night.[Saturday, August 13, 2016]
City Council race heats up
With just days to go until the filing deadline, the race for the City Council in Palo Alto is suddenly heating up, with four residents confirming this week that they will vie for a seat in November and each pointing to the city's housing shortage as a key area of concern.[Friday, August 12, 2016]
In parting shot, planning commissioner slams Palo Alto council over housing policies
For the past two years, Kate Downing has been one of Palo Alto's most passionate advocates for building more affordable housing. This week, she announced her departure from Palo Alto in a public letter that castigated city leaders for their failure to address the worsening housing crisis and for setting the city on a path toward becoming a "hollowed out museum."[Wednesday, August 10, 2016]
Neighbor challenges downtown Palo Alto development
Vincent Leung wasn't looking for a political battle, but when the Kipling Street resident learned about a three-story building that recently won approval for his downtown block, he found several reasons to feel concerned. Now, he hopes the City Council will share these concerns and address them.[Thursday, August 11, 2016]
Woman arrested after spree of bank robberies
An East Palo Alto woman who police say took part in at least nine bank robberies over the summer, including one in Palo Alto earlier this month, was arrested on Aug. 3 after investigators traced a finger print from bank pamphlet back to her.[Monday, August 8, 2016]
Arthur Keller enters City Council race in Palo Alto
Arthur Keller, a former Palo Alto planning commissioner with a long record of scrutinizing new developments, challenging prevailing assumptions about traffic impacts and promoting transportation improvements, announced Thursday that he will be seeking a seat on the Palo Alto City Council in November.[Thursday, July 28, 2016]
Palo Alto cautious about encouraging second-dwelling units
For some in Palo Alto, "second-dwelling units" represent one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways for addressing the city's affordable-housing crisis. But as the Planning and Transportation Commission considered on Wednesday ways to ease restrictions for these units, some members remained very concerned about the unintended consequences of any possible changes.[Thursday, July 28, 2016]
Plan to hike development fees meets with opposition
A proposal in Palo Alto to sharply raise the fees that developers would have to pay to support affordable housing faced significant scrutiny and criticism Wednesday, with several planning commissioners and housing advocates making the case that the change may actually hinder the city's efforts to make progress on the increasingly urgent issue.[Thursday, July 28, 2016]
Candidate pool grows in Palo Alto council race
The pool of candidates for Palo Alto's City Council race may soon widen, with seven residents recently pulling candidacy papers.[Wednesday, July 27, 2016]
Hotel California rooms to be reserved for affordable housing
Hotel California will be converted next month into an apartment complex for low-income residents -- a project that will bring 20 units of affordable housing into the heart of Palo Alto's "second downtown."[Wednesday, July 27, 2016]