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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
Reforms recommended for Palo Alto's contentious zoning process
After hours of agonizing, debating, copy editing and wrangling over definitions, Palo Alto's planning commissioners on Wednesday cobbled together a proposal for revamping the city's controversial "planned-community" process.[Wednesday, March 11, 2015]
Palo Alto's payroll on the rise as workforce, salaries grow
A growing workforce and rising salaries have spurred a 6.8 percent jump in Palo Alto's employee costs last year, according to data released by the city Tuesday afternoon.[Wednesday, March 11, 2015]
Palo Alto opts not to regulate Airbnb rentals
A proposal in Palo Alto to start regulating and taxing rooms rented out through sites such as Airbnb quietly fizzled on Monday night after the City Council agreed that it has other, more pressing, priorities.[Tuesday, March 10, 2015]
Buena Vista rally brings hundreds to City Hall
With a cloud of uncertainty looming over their homes, residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and hundreds of their supporters rallied at City Hall on Monday to express support for the park's preservation and to thank Palo Alto officials for recent contributions to that cause.[Tuesday, March 10, 2015]
Korean restaurant set to take over old Apple Store in Palo Alto
A Korean restaurant with a rooftop terrace is setting its sights on the former Apple Store in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.[Friday, March 6, 2015]
Office building planned for three Cambridge Avenue parcels
A developer's proposal to enliven a mostly commercial street parallel to California Avenue with a new three-story office building earned a mixed reception on Thursday from city officials, who urged the developer to further refine the design.[Friday, March 6, 2015]
Palo Alto tries to get a piece of the 'sharing economy'
It's called the "sharing economy," but Palo Alto officials are growing increasingly concerned that the city isn't getting its fair share from Airbnb and other services that allow visitors to rent rooms in local homes without paying hotel taxes.[Thursday, March 5, 2015]
Plan to collect food scraps wins support in Palo Alto
Banana peels and apple cores may look like garbage to most Palo Alto residents, but city leaders are increasingly viewing such food scraps as a key ingredient in a decade-long drive to reduce the amount of local waste that gets shipped to landfills.[Tuesday, March 3, 2015]
Housing Corporation fends off 'whispers of suspicion' over director's living arrangement
The Palo Alto Housing Corporation, a nonprofit that in 2013 tried to develop a housing complex on Maybell Avenue, on Monday fended off criticisms from residents who questioned its decision to rent one of the houses on the Maybell site to its executive director.[Tuesday, March 3, 2015]
Palo Alto divided over proposed office cap
Palo Alto's polarizing debate over office growth hit a stalemate Monday night when a deeply divided City Council agonized over the topic for more than four hours before deciding not to move ahead with any dramatic development restrictions just yet.[Tuesday, March 3, 2015]