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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 looks to limit chain stores on California Avenue
Days after they celebrated the dramatic renovation of California Avenue, Palo Alto officials are bracing for their next challenge: to save the eclectic business strip from its own success.[Friday, May 15, 2015]
New drought rules limit irrigation in Palo Alto
With the statewide drought lingering for the fourth straight year, Palo Alto this week adopted a new rule barring residents and businesses from irrigating their landscapes more than twice a week.[Wednesday, May 13, 2015]
Buena Vista appraiser blasts council's direction, threatens to resign
An appraiser tasked by Palo Alto officials with recalculating how much assistance residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park should be offered in the event of the park's closure has informed the city that he will not perform the assignment and has threatened to resign if further directed to do so.[Wednesday, May 13, 2015]
Plan to ban smoking in apartments still up in the air
Smokers in Palo Alto's apartment complexes need not snuff out their cigarette butts just yet. After a long discussion, a City Council committee agreed not to move ahead at this time with a proposal to ban smoking at multi-family buildings.[Wednesday, May 13, 2015]
'Urgent' law aims to prevent retail loss
Seeking to shield local shops against an office incursion, Palo Alto officials unanimously passed late Monday night an emergency law that they hope will halt the troubling trend.[Tuesday, May 12, 2015]
Mercedes dealership planned for Ming's site
A glassy, three-story Mercedes dealership would go up next to the Baylands at the Embarcadero Road site of Ming's Restaurant under a proposal that the Architectural Review Board discussed Thursday morning.[Friday, May 8, 2015]
City celebrates revamped California Avenue
The brand new fountain sculpture wasn't the only thing making a splash Thursday on California Avenue, where a crowd of merchants, residents and beaming dignitaries congregated to watch a ribbon get snipped and to celebrate the completion of a streetscape project that has been six years in the making.[Thursday, May 7, 2015]
Palo Alto set to pass 'urgency' law to protect retail
Every member of the Palo Alto council believes retail space should be protected, whether from being turned into offices in the downtown area or chain stores around California Avenue. To that effect, the council is set to consider on Monday night an urgency ordinance that would ban conversions of ground-floor retail (or "retail-like") use to offices or any other non-retail business anywhere in the city.[Friday, May 8, 2015]
Tree disparity grows between north and south Palo Alto
Grass may always be greener on the other side, but when it comes to street trees it's the north side of Palo Alto that actually does have more than the south.[Friday, May 8, 2015]
War and peace
In his latest book, "War! What is it Good for?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots," Stanford professor Ian Morris argues that war is the surest path to peace.[Thursday, May 7, 2015]