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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 teen booked for allegedly cooking hash oil, starting fire
A teenager who police said was cooking hash oil in his Palo Alto apartment was arrested Thursday night after he started a fire that displaced several residents in the apartment complex.[Friday, June 26, 2015]
Palo Alto's Eichler uprising
With the real estate market surging and building on the rise in Palo Alto, residents are increasingly challenging proposed developments that they believe degrade their neighborhood character.[Friday, June 26, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to cement protection for ground-floor retail
After passing an urgency law earlier this year to preserve ground-floor retail from converting to offices, Palo Alto officials are now working on a more lasting solution.[Thursday, June 25, 2015]
Palo Alto defers master plan for Fry's site
Palo Alto officials rarely turn down grant funding but they made an exception on Monday night when they agreed not to launch a long-discussed master plan for the area around Fry's Electronics.[Wednesday, June 24, 2015]
Santa Clara County pledges more funds to preserve Buena Vista
Santa Clara County supervisors on Tuesday upped the ante in a bid to preserve the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park when they unanimously voted to allocate an additional $6.5 million toward the cause, contingent on a similar match from Palo Alto.[Tuesday, June 23, 2015]
Plan to fix Page Mill Road takes another twist
A proposal by Santa Clara County to add two driving lanes on a congested segment of Page Mill Road hit a speed bump in Palo Alto on Monday, with critics arguing that the city should be discouraging drivers rather than enabling them.[Tuesday, June 23, 2015]
Architectural Review Board chair resigns, citing 'public perception'
Randy Popp, chair of Palo Alto's influential and occasionally embattled Architectural Review Board, resigned from the board Friday, citing concerns about how his dual role as an applicant to the board and as its chair may be perceived.[Saturday, June 20, 2015]
Over union concerns, Palo Alto looks to contract out enforcement of parking program
Despite vehement opposition from the city's largest union and an unfavorable ruling this week from a fact-finding panel, Palo Alto plans to move ahead with hiring a contractor to enforce the city's long-awaited downtown parking-permit program, the city announced Thursday.[Thursday, June 18, 2015]
Burglars strike Palo Alto pharmacy, police say
Three men smashed the front-plate glass door of a Cambridge Avenue pharmacy early Wednesday morning, broke into the building and made off with dozens of bottles of prescription drugs, Palo Alto police said.[Wednesday, June 17, 2015]
County looks to set aside more funds to preserve Buena Vista
Santa Clara County supervisors are preparing to raise the pool of money available for a possible purchase of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park by setting aside an additional $6.5 million for the cause.[Tuesday, June 16, 2015]