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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
Marriott proposes two hotels in south Palo Alto
In the latest sign of Palo Alto's surging hotel boom, Marriott has proposed to build two five-story hotels on San Antonio Road that between them would include 301 rooms.[Thursday, May 28, 2015]
Despite cool reception, solar program to stay
Palo Alto's newest solar-energy program has plenty of fans but, so far, not a single user. Even so, city officials agreed on Wednesday not to pull the plug on Palo Alto CLEAN just yet.[Thursday, May 28, 2015]
Palo Alto looks to rethink animal services
With Palo Alto's animal services limping toward an uncertain future, a City Council committee on Tuesday agreed to spend $250,000 to evaluate the next steps for the much maligned but popular operation.[Wednesday, May 27, 2015]
Closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park approved
In a decision that may signal the end of the road for Palo Alto's only mobile-home park, city officials on Tuesday affirmed the property owner's right to shut down the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.[Tuesday, May 26, 2015]
Buena Vista closure heads toward final chapter
With the City Council just days away from making a decision on the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, supporters of preserving the low-income community in Barron Park are making a renewed push to keep Palo Alto schools at the center of the conversation.[Friday, May 22, 2015]
New city jobs prove a tough sell in Palo Alto
The budget climate may be as sunny as ever in Palo Alto, but the city's elected officials have been casting clouds over proposals to hire new workers.[Friday, May 22, 2015]
Council redirects City Hall's proposed sign program
Is A,B,C really as easy as 1, 2, 3? When it comes to labeling the three levels of the City Hall underground parking garage, Palo Alto officials aren't so sure. And in lieu of certainty, the City Council balked on Monday night at spending about $100,000 to make the shift from letters to numbers, as city staff had recommended.[Tuesday, May 19, 2015]
City takes cautious route on California Avenue chain store ban
The goal sounds simple: Protect California Avenue's quirky character and mom-and-pop shops from an influx of offices and chain stores. The solution, however, proved frustratingly elusive Monday night, when Palo Alto officials grappled with the topic of limiting formula retail in the city's second downtown.[Tuesday, May 19, 2015]
Stanford University set to roll out ambitious trail project
After more than two years of planning and designing, Stanford University is looking to break ground this month on an ambitious trail project to create a smoother trip for bicyclists and pedestrians around its campus, the nearby foothills and north Palo Alto.[Monday, May 18, 2015]
Appraisal dispute complicates Buena Vista decision
When Palo Alto officials indicated on April 14 their plan to approve the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, they specified that the park would have to be re-appraised to account for the high quality of local schools and the park's safe location. But with appraiser David Beccaria refusing to perform this assignment, officials are now facing an uncomfortable choice: to either rescind their direction or to further prolong a closure process that has already dragged on for a year and a half.[Friday, May 15, 2015]