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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
With new design, home on Eichler-style block in Palo Alto nears approval
After an outpouring of criticism from neighbors and significant design revisions, a Louis Road property owner this week received the green light from the city to build a two-story home on a block dominated by Eichler-style houses. The approval will become officially effective in about two weeks unless the city receives a request for a hearing from an adjacent tenant or property owner.[Friday, July 25, 2014]
Palo Alto, fired library contractor exchange 'cover up' accusations
The court battle between the City of Palo Alto and the contractor it has accused of badly botching the long-delayed construction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center has taken on clandestine elements over the past month, with each side accusing the other of illegally hiding crucial documents.[Thursday, July 24, 2014]
Two familiar faces enter Palo Alto council race
The crowded race for the Palo Alto City Council further expanded Wednesday, when two familiar candidates -- Mark Weiss and Victor Frost -- signaled their willingness to join the fray, bringing the candidate field to 12.[Wednesday, July 23, 2014]
'Wayfinding' program to bring signs, monument to Palo Alto City Hall
Visitors who have a hard time finding their way around Palo Alto City Hall will soon get plenty of help from the city, which is embarking on a $300,000 effort to install a network of signs in and around its primary civic hub.[Friday, July 25, 2014]
Palo Alto to bolster emergency medical services
With demand for emergency medical services on the rise, the Palo Alto Fire Department is preparing to add a fourth ambulance to its fleet and rebrand itself to reflect its changing role.[Wednesday, July 23, 2014]
Lydia Kou joins Palo Alto's council race
The race for the Palo Alto City Council heated up Tuesday as two more residents declared their intentions to run for a seat in November, raising the number of candidates to 10 and further underscoring community anxieties about new developments.[Tuesday, July 22, 2014]
County embarks on long road to fix congested expressways
Faced with thickening traffic jams throughout its expressway network, Santa Clara County officials are considering a range of long-term projects that would add driving lanes and under- or overpasses to segments of particularly busy roads, including Page Mill Road and Foothill Expressway.[Saturday, July 19, 2014]
Board balks at approving controversial Palo Alto development
With protests from residents mounting, the city's Architectural Review Board on Thursday deferred its expected approval of a proposed three-story building at 385 Sherman Ave., the latest in a string of commercial developments slated to go up in the business district around California Avenue.[Friday, July 18, 2014]
A matter of taste
Palo Alto residents and council members often lash out at new developments for their failure to conform to the styles of surrounding homes, whether traditional or modern.[Friday, July 18, 2014]
Palo Alto has history of architectural diversity
Santa Barbara has its Spanish villas and San Francisco has its postcard-perfect Victorians, but Palo Alto's architecture is a hodgepodge of styles.[Friday, July 18, 2014]