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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
Los Arboles makes bid to ban two-story homes
Seeking to protect the distinct Eichler character of their neighborhood, residents of Los Arboles have applied for a zone change that would prohibit two-story homes.[Friday, July 10, 2015]
Plan to limit Cal Ave chain stores gains momentum
Palo Alto's push to preserve the California Avenue shopping area's funky, arty charm gained steam Wednesday night, when the city's planning commissioners added their support to limiting chain stores in the city's eclectic "second downtown."[Thursday, July 9, 2015]
Woman booked for attempted robbery in downtown Palo Alto
A woman who police said tried to rob a pedestrian at knifepoint in downtown Palo Alto on Tuesday afternoon was arrested later in the day after she walked into the police station to discuss an unrelated investigation.[Tuesday, July 7, 2015]
Panel appointed to help update Palo Alto's land-use vision
Housing advocates, land-use watchdogs and three former planning commissioners are among the 20 residents selected last week by City Manager James Keene to help Palo Alto revise its land-use bible, the Comprehensive Plan.[Tuesday, July 7, 2015]
Palo Alto takes aim at state's conflict-of-interest law
When the Palo Alto City Council met last month to consider creating an annual limit on new office development, one voice was notably missing from the discussion.[Tuesday, July 7, 2015]
Bridge replacement could jam up Highway 101 this week
Drivers on U.S. Highway 101 can expect lane closures during the evening, night and early morning hours this week as the California Department of Transportation continues its work to replace the San Francisquito Bridge between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.[Monday, July 6, 2015]
Palo Alto waives fees for single-story districts
Residents of Eichler neighborhoods clamoring for protection from new mansions on their blocks scored a victory Monday night when the council officially struck from the books a fee for requesting bans on two-story homes.[Friday, July 3, 2015]
New rules approved for proposed cell towers
Much like bad cell reception, new wireless facilities have been causing plenty of static in Palo Alto neighborhoods of late. To cut through the noise, the City Council this week changed its rules for approving wireless equipment.[Wednesday, July 1, 2015]
City contracts out parking enforcement for new downtown program
If there's one thing that's more frustrating for downtown residents than finding parking on their congested streets, it's waiting for City Hall to fix the worsening problem. But on Monday, the City Council offered a hopeful sign that a solution will be in place this fall when it approved an enforcement contract for downtown's new Residential Parking Permit Program.[Tuesday, June 30, 2015]
Palo Alto pledges funds to save Buena Vista
They haven't had much to cheer about over the past two years, but on Monday night about 300 residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park stood up to applaud the City Council after it voted to pledge $14.5 million in city funds to preserve the mobile-home park.[Monday, June 29, 2015]