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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
Neighborhood groups may get free use of city rooms
Neighborhood groups in Palo Alto can be tough to define, let alone engage, but the City Council wants to give it a shot. On Tuesday night, a council committee weighed a list of proposals to strengthen the ties between City Hall and neighborhoods, including free use of city facilities for neighborhood meetings.[Wednesday, June 10, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to beef up code enforcement
Blasting a gas-powered leaf blower is technically illegal in Palo Alto, but that offers little solace to residents who routinely hear their defiant roars. On Monday, the City Council acknowledged this problem when it voted to shore up the city's code-enforcement operation.[Tuesday, June 9, 2015]
Palo Alto to reconsider fee for single-story zones
Palo Alto residents seeking to enact bans on two-story homes in their Eichler neighborhoods may soon get a little financial aid from the city. The City Council agreed on Monday to reconsider a hefty fee that the city charges neighborhoods applying for "single-story overlays."[Tuesday, June 9, 2015]
Ed Shikada set to stay on as assistant city manager in Palo Alto
Two months after he joined the City of Palo Alto's leadership team on a trial basis, Ed Shikada is preparing to shed his interim status and extend his stay at City Hall.[Monday, June 8, 2015]
Palo Alto package thief nabbed in undercover sting
A man suspected of stealing a package from the porch of a Webster Street home and then trying to pawn off its contents on Craigslist was arrested when his buyer turned out to be an undercover Palo Alto officer.[Monday, June 8, 2015]
Neighbors slam proposed Marriott hotels
A proposal to build two Marriott hotels on the southern edge of Palo Alto got off to a shaky start Thursday morning, when residents from nearby properties panned the project in front of the city's Architectural Review Board.[Thursday, June 4, 2015]
Project Safety Net prepares for new direction
Hobbled by a leadership vacuum and insufficient resources, a Palo Alto coalition that formed in 2009 in response to a string of teenage suicides is preparing for a dramatic transition.[Wednesday, June 3, 2015]
Park Boulevard office building wins approval
The three-story office building proposed for Park Boulevard was, by all accounts, an exceptional project. For opponents, that was precisely the problem.[Tuesday, June 2, 2015]
Summit spurs ideas, debates about Palo Alto's future
The festival that took over Mitchell Park Community Center on Saturday featured no music but plenty of musings, maps and moments of healthy tension. About 300 residents joined Palo Alto's top officials in a daylong summit to consider what the city should look like in 2030.[Saturday, May 30, 2015]
Palo Alto cap on office development threatens projects underway
Palo Alto's push to limit growth in office space may jeopardize as many as 10 proposed developments, some of which have been going through the city's planning process for more than two years and are now on the verge of final approval.[Friday, May 29, 2015]