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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 high-speed rail plan faces criticism
High-speed rail's recent pivot toward the Bay Area may have energized the project's Silicon Valley supporters, but it is also raising new concerns from local and state watchdogs about the project's viability.[Wednesday, March 30, 2016]
Palo Alto moves ahead with sludge facility
The new building slated to go up in the Palo Alto Baylands will be a concrete structure, 50 feet in height, and designed to accommodate trucks filled with sewage. And local environmentalists couldn't be happier.[Tuesday, March 29, 2016]
Reversing course, Palo Alto renews solar-energy program
Just when it looked like the sun would go down on Palo Alto CLEAN, the City Council offered the program a boost of energy when it voted not to proceed with a proposed rate change that critics say would have doomed it.[Tuesday, March 29, 2016]
Stanford wins approval for Escondido Village housing development
Stanford University can move ahead with its plan to add 2,000 beds for graduate students to Escondido Village after the project secured on Thursday the unanimous endorsement of the Santa Clara County Planning Commission.[Friday, March 25, 2016]
Battle brews over Palo Alto's solar-energy program
It took four years of patience and frustration, but the clouds have finally parted for Palo Alto CLEAN, the city's pioneering program for buying solar energy produced by local customers.[Friday, March 25, 2016]
New dog parks pitched in Palo Alto
Dogged by persistent complaints about inadequate park space for local pooches, Palo Alto officials are preparing to unleash a new policy that would both expand existing dog parks and create new ones throughout the city.[Friday, March 25, 2016]
Palo Alto throws its support behind Stanford's housing project
As Palo Alto struggles to find ways to encourage new housing, Stanford University is quickly advancing a project that city officials believe could help alleviate the housing crunch: a development that would add 2,000 beds for graduate students at Escondido Village. On Monday, the City Council enthusiastically endorsed Stanford's project.[Wednesday, March 23, 2016]
Palo Alto looks to spur affordable housing
Seeking to halt the city's transformation into an enclave for the super-rich, Palo Alto officials set their sights Monday night on developing housing for teachers, firefighters, government workers and other employees whose incomes are too low to afford local rents but too high to qualify for local affordable-housing programs.[Tuesday, March 22, 2016]
Santa Clara County judge gives green light to Little League cell tower
A bitter neighborhood dispute over a new cell tower at the Little League field on Middlefield Road came to a resolution earlier this month when a judge ruled that Verizon can proceed with installing the new equipment.[Friday, March 18, 2016]
Office projects approved around California Avenue
The rapidly changing area around California Avenue is likely to get another heavy dollop of commercial development after two projects with sizable office space received endorsements from Palo Alto's Architectural Review Board this week.[Friday, March 18, 2016]