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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
Stanford hosts meetings to discuss new land-use plan
As Stanford University prepares to obtain a new permit for future campus development, the university is hosting a series of open house events to inform the community about the major planning effort.[Friday, June 3, 2016]
Palo Alto council to rule on new Mercedes dealership near Baylands
Once a popular destination for diners seeking egg rolls, dim sum and Chinese chicken salad, the Embarcadero Road building that once housed Ming's Restaurant would be demolished and replaced with a glassy, three-story Mercedes Benz dealership under a plan that the City Council will consider Monday night.[Saturday, June 4, 2016]
With race tightening, Bernie Sanders rallies crowd during Palo Alto stop
Thousands flocked to Palo Alto to chant, to cheer, to wave signs, to "feel the Bern" and to experience the rare thrill of seeing their state play a relevant role in a presidential election.[Wednesday, June 1, 2016]
Palo Alto to create policy for sea-level rise
With sea-level rise threatening to overwhelm Palo Alto's levee system and imperil thousands of properties along the bayfront, city officials agreed on Tuesday night to begin crafting a policy for dealing with the slowly creeping menace.[Wednesday, June 1, 2016]
Palo Alto looks to raise fees for storm-drain projects
It's not easy to get residents excited about storm drains during a prolonged drought, but that's what Palo Alto hopes to do early next year, when it asks property owners to raise fees to pay for new projects and improve maintenance of the existing system.[Tuesday, May 31, 2016]
Zuckerberg plans to raze, replace his Crescent Park homes
Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing for a major update to his digs in the Crescent Park neighborhood, where he plans to raze four homes and build four new ones, equipped with large basements and small crawl spaces.[Thursday, May 26, 2016]
New housing proposal on Maybell scores a victory
Three years after a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue stoked a revolt in Palo Alto's Barron Park neighborhood, a new plan to build housing on the former orchard site is on the verge of winning the city's approval.[Saturday, May 28, 2016]
Faircourt's bid to ban two-story homes rejected
An effort to ban new two-story homes in the Eichler enclave of Faircourt faltered Wednesday night after a series of last-minute detraction dragged the petition just below the needed signature threshold.[Thursday, May 26, 2016]
High-speed rail launches study for Peninsula segment
With plans accelerating for the Bay Area segment of California's high-speed rail line, Palo Alto officials this week called for a more inclusive process in designing the train system and renewed their calls for rail officials to "grade separate" the new bullet trains from crossing traffic.[Wednesday, May 25, 2016]
Residents call for 'road diet' to curb accidents on Middlefield
For John Guislin and his neighbors on Middlefield Road, screeching tires and clanging metal have become increasingly familiar sounds in recent years. To curb the recent rash of traffic accidents, residents are now petitioning the city to create a "road diet" on Middlefield, which would reduce the number of lanes.[Tuesday, May 24, 2016]