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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 resets design process for new bike bridge
Frustrated by rising costs and engineering uncertainties, Palo Alto officials agreed early Tuesday morning to relaunch the design process for what they still hope will be a showpiece bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101.[Tuesday, December 15, 2015]
Downtown's parking-permit zone set to expand
With Palo Alto's parking congestion now spreading from the heart of downtown to surrounding neighborhoods, city officials agreed on Monday night to expand the city's fledgling parking-permit zone and to set a cap on the number of permits being sold to area employees.[Tuesday, December 15, 2015]
Plan for new police headquarters cruises ahead
Two city-owned parking lots on Sherman Avenue would make way for Palo Alto's new police headquarters, a parking structure and possibly a tiny park under a proposal that the City Council embraced Monday night.[Tuesday, December 15, 2015]
Plans to revamp former Facebook campus advance
A developer looking to revamp the sprawling Stanford Research Park campus once occupied by Facebook earned a long-awaited victory Wednesday night when the city's Planning and Transportation Commission endorsed the environmental analysis for the project.[Friday, December 11, 2015]
Some residents outside new parking zone want 'in'
For people living in downtown Palo Alto, the city's recently launched parking-permit program offered a promising start to solving their most frustrating problem of the last decade: parking along their streets that some likened to a daily "tidal wave" of commuters' cars.[Saturday, December 12, 2015]
Council launches edit of Palo Alto's zoning code
Every day, Palo Alto's city planners find themselves in negotiations with homeowners and builders over things like storefront signs, rooftop equipment and basement sizes. On Monday, the City Council tried to bring some clarity and transparency to these discussions when it approved a host of changes to the city's Zoning Code.[Tuesday, December 8, 2015]
Palo Alto council open to new Marriott hotels
It's still a long way from the finish line, but a proposal to build two Marriott hotels on the southern edge of Palo Alto got off to a promising start on Monday night when City Council members indicated that they like the idea — at least in principle.[Tuesday, December 8, 2015]
Rising costs threaten Palo Alto's 'iconic' bike bridge
It was supposed to be the centerpiece of Palo Alto's biking renaissance -- a slender, elegant bridge that would span U.S. Highway 101 and offer cyclists and pedestrians a beautiful new entryway into the Baylands. Now, Palo Alto's hoped-for signature bike project is on shaky grounds.[Wednesday, December 9, 2015]
Palo Alto hires new Human Resources director
City Manager James Keene didn't wait long in selecting a new leader for the city's Human Resources Department, tapping a veteran from Los Gatos for the "chief people officer" position.[Monday, December 7, 2015]
Council to weigh controversial Marriott proposal
With Palo Alto's hotel boom in full effect, the City Council will consider on Monday the latest entrant into the crowded market when it gets its first look at a proposal to build two Marriott hotels on the southern edge of the city.[Saturday, December 5, 2015]