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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
Palo Alto scores victory in federal ruling on Buena Vista
The owner of Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park suffered a defeat in federal court Friday when a judge dismissed his lawsuit against the City, deeming it "not ripe for adjudication."[Saturday, June 25, 2016]
Auditors raise concerns about how Palo Alto police handle complaints, other processes
Incidents with Palo Alto police prompt Independent Police Auditors Michael Gennaco's and Stephen Connolly's concerns with the way the police department receives citizen complaints.[Friday, June 24, 2016]
Revamp of Baylands golf course to start, finally
It's not the bunkers or the soil mounds at the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course that have been causing headaches for city officials in recent years but the myriad bureaucratic hazards that they've had to navigate as part of a long quest to reconfigure the Baylands links.[Friday, June 24, 2016]
Palo Alto prepares to vote on new business tax
Palo Alto businesses would have to pay a tax based on how many workers they employ and that money would pay for transportation improvements under a proposal that the City Council will consider Monday night.[Saturday, June 25, 2016]
Santa Clara County supervisors back plan to preserve Buena Vista
A proposal to buy and save Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park scored its first victory Tuesday when the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to enter a partnership with the city and the Housing Authority of Santa Clara County for the preservation effort.[Tuesday, June 21, 2016]
Palo Alto hits the brakes on Matadero Creek bikeway
Facing a slew of physical obstacles and neighborhood concerns, Palo Alto is veering away from a once popular proposal to create an off-road bikeway through Midtown along Matadero Creek.[Tuesday, June 21, 2016]
Palo Alto council set to rule on new housing development on Maybell
For the second time in three years, Palo Alto in preparing to approve a housing development for a former orchard site on Maybell Avenue. This time, both the project and the political environment are drastically different than they were in 2013.[Sunday, June 19, 2016]
Palo Alto nears decision on November tax to combat traffic
A proposal in Palo Alto to place a tax measure on the November ballot to fund traffic improvements is beginning to stir anxieties in the city's business community, though a new survey suggests that most residents would support it.[Friday, June 17, 2016]
Palo Alto banks on new nonprofit to reduce downtown traffic
After talking for years about the need to reduce the rate of solo drivers to downtown Palo Alto, the City Council this week agreed to back words with funds when it voted to contribute $100,000 toward the city's nascent traffic-fighting nonprofit.[Thursday, June 16, 2016]
Eminent domain may be used to prevent Buena Vista's closure
In a fresh attempt to prevent the closure of Palo Alto's sole mobile-home park, city and county officials have teamed up with the Housing Authority of Santa Clara County for a new bid to buy Buena Vista Mobile Home Park -- one that may involve eminent domain.[Wednesday, June 15, 2016]