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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
The terms of the debate
In the debate over Palo Alto's built environment, there are several key issues that residents and City Council members are debating: whether to relax the city's building heights, require wider sidewalks and "reinvent" how the Architectural Review Board works.[Friday, July 18, 2014]
Is Palo Alto's architecture-review process broken?
Palo Alto, a city that relishes its role as the center of innovation and creator of "disruptive" technologies, finds itself in the midst of an escalating battle over architecture.[Friday, July 18, 2014]
Palo Alto council race expands
Former Gunn High School teacher John Fredrich, who has made four prior bids for the Palo Alto City Council, filed a candidate intention statement this week, indicating he is ready for a fifth run.[Tuesday, July 15, 2014]
Proposed Sherman Avenue development stirs anxieties in Palo Alto
A developer's plan to build a three-story building next to Sarah Wallis Park in the rapidly changing California Avenue business district is meeting resistance from area residents, who are urging the city to halt the project.[Tuesday, July 15, 2014]
Candidate season officially opens Monday
Palo Alto residents looking to jump into the City Council and school board races can start picking up their nomination papers today, as the filing period officially gets under way.[Monday, July 14, 2014]
Mitchell Park Library contractor fires back at the city
Flintco Pacific, the contractor blamed by Palo Alto officials for the long delayed and error-plagued construction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center, is firing back at the city and accusing officials of fraud and breach of contract.[Friday, July 11, 2014]
Former planning commission chair Eduardo Martinez dies
Eduardo Martinez, a soft-spoken architect who chaired Palo Alto's Planning and Transportation Commission before stepping down earlier this year, died last week after a battle with cancer.[Thursday, July 10, 2014]
Growth debate tests city's height limits
With development anxieties running high in Palo Alto, the city's planning commissioners on Wednesday pondered three different visions for long-term growth that carried one common theme: preservation of residential neighborhoods.[Thursday, July 10, 2014]
Citizens panel appointed for Comprehensive Plan update
Palo Alto has selected a new citizens panel that is charged with helping the city update its land-use bible, the Comprehensive plan.[Wednesday, July 9, 2014]
Palo Alto considers a 'net-zero' growth vision
As Palo Alto moves toward adopting a new vision for growth, officials are considering one ambitious alternative that would significantly transform the city's commercial hubs: a transition into a "net-zero" community.[Wednesday, July 9, 2014]