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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
Cory Wolbach edges out Lydia Kou for fifth seat on Palo Alto council
Cory Wolbach, a legislative aide for state Sen. Jerry Hill, has edged out emergency-preparedness leader Lydia Kou for the fifth contested seat in Palo Alto's heated City Council race, the latest ballot count from the Santa Clara County Registrar's Office shows.[Sunday, November 16, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to scrap ban on car camping
After lingering in legal limbo for nearly a year, Palo Alto's controversial ban on car camping is now heading toward repeal.[Thursday, November 13, 2014]
Palo Alto's parking-permit program gets green light
Responding to years of complaints about downtown's residential streets transforming into parking lots for employees, Palo Alto's planning commissioners unanimously backed a parking-permit program that aims to ease the congestion.[Thursday, November 13, 2014]
City, school district reach breakthrough on Cubberley
After two years of uncertainty, the City of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Unified School District have reached a breakthrough on new lease terms for the Cubberlely Community Center, a sprawling campus whose future status has been in limbo while the deal was being hashed out.[Wednesday, November 12, 2014]
Palo Alto approves new housing vision
Without a peep of public protest or a single dissenting vote, Palo Alto adopted on Monday night a new vision document aimed at guiding housing development for the next eight years.[Wednesday, November 12, 2014]
State declines to review Santa Clara County election
Santa Clara County's election will not be reviewed by the Secretary of State after all, despite public speculation about a county IT manager who quit the day before voters went to the polls and a request from the county for an independent evaluation.[Tuesday, November 11, 2014]
Residentialists lose out in commission shuffle
Days after Palo Alto voters elected three slow-growth proponents to the new City Council, the existing council took a step in the opposite direction and appointed two high-tech professionals with a passion for urban revitalization to the city's influential Planning and Transportation Commission.[Tuesday, November 11, 2014]
Makeover eyed for Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo
Palo Alto's Junior Museum and Zoo, a popular Rinconada Park destination for children to take classes and gaze at bobcats, turtles and ferrets, may soon be on its way to a dramatic makeover.[Monday, November 10, 2014]
Election analysis: How they won — and lost
With the dust still settling on Election Day and scores of provisional and hand-delivered absentee ballots still being tallied, the composition of Palo Alto's next City Council remained to some degree uncertain Thursday. The major question that remains hanging with Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach running neck-in-neck for the fifth open seat, is whether slow-growth "residentialist" candidates will have a mere majority or downright dominance of the council.[Sunday, November 9, 2014]
Palo Alto set to appoint a slew of commissioners
With the new City Council preparing to take the helm in Palo Alto come January, the existing one will have a chance Monday to leave a lasting imprint on the city's future when it appoints new members to all three boards that review new developments.[Friday, November 7, 2014]