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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
As housing crisis worsens, city scrambles for solutions
From young professionals looking for homes near their jobs to native sons and daughters who have discovered they can no longer afford to live in their hometown, calls for Palo Alto officials to address the city's affordable-housing crisis continue to getting louder.[Friday, March 18, 2016]
Stanford Research Park companies join forces to fight traffic
For Lockheed Martin, Hewlett-Packard and other titans based at Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, innovation has always been a way of life and the key to surviving and thriving in the competitive cauldron of the global market. Now, the companies are merging their creative energies to take on a common enemy: traffic.[Thursday, March 17, 2016]
Palo Alto ponders November tax measure to target traffic
Seeking to kick the city's traffic-reduction efforts into a higher gear, the Palo Alto City Council on Monday night established a new committee that could set the stage for a local tax measure in November.[Tuesday, March 15, 2016]
Study makes economic case for growth in Palo Alto
New developments inevitably breed frustrations in Palo Alto, where city leaders have spent much of the past year exploring new ways to limit the growth of office space and curtail its most visible side-effects: traffic congestion and a parking shortage.[Friday, March 11, 2016]
In fight against traffic, Palo Alto finds business allies
The City Council, on Monday night, will consider the growing list of pending "transportation-demand measures" (incentives for changing people's commute habits) currently being pursued and will evaluate the city's funding options.[Saturday, March 12, 2016]
Palo Alto residents prepare for expansion of downtown parking program
Downtown Palo Alto's shifting parking landscape will undergo another tremor on April 1, when the new phase of the city's Residential Preferential Parking program takes effect, bringing with it new parking restrictions for both residents and employees.[Tuesday, March 8, 2016]
Court ruling gives big boost to high-speed rail
California's high-speed rail system surged past a major legal obstacle this week when a Sacramento Superior Court judge tossed out a long-simmering lawsuit from the Central Valley.[Tuesday, March 8, 2016]
Anxious about plane noise, Palo Alto eyes seat on new FAA committee
Spurred by outrage over airplane noise from residents of Palo Alto and surrounding communities, the Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to the formation of a new committee aimed at giving critics a louder voice in future negotiations over plane routes and flight altitudes.[Tuesday, March 8, 2016]
City completes settlement over claims of excessive police force
The Los Altos Hills resident who claimed that Palo Alto officers used excessive force on him after he suffered an epileptic seizure during an August 2013 traffic stop has agreed to drop all claims against the city and the officers involved in exchange for a $250,000 payment.[Saturday, March 5, 2016]
Office project at Olive Garden site races to meet Palo Alto's deadline
With the clock ticking toward the deadline for new office developments in Palo Alto, two proposals by the same architecture firm are racing to complete their applications and become eligible for approval this year.[Saturday, March 5, 2016]