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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
Business group drops plan for county sales-tax hike
An effort by Silicon Valley businesses to place a tax measure for transportation projects on the November ballot skidded to a halt Wednesday when the group decided to wait until 2016.[Wednesday, June 11, 2014]
Palo Alto to consider appeal of Stanford housing development
Stanford University hit an unexpected hurdle on Monday in its bid to build 180 housing units in College Terrace when the Palo Alto City Council agreed to hold a hearing on a resident's appeal of the project.[Tuesday, June 10, 2014]
Palo Alto firms up stance in Cubberley negotiations
After publicly declaring its intention to stop paying the Palo Alto school district annual fees in exchange for a commitment not to sell property, the City Council on Monday night put its money where its mouth is by stripping the payments from the city's upcoming budget.[Tuesday, June 10, 2014]
Palo Alto treads cautiously on housing policies
Facing a state mandate to plan for more housing, Palo Alto officials adopted this week a strategy for meeting the requirement that favors caution over ambition.[Friday, June 6, 2014]
Hotel-tax bump a tough sell with Palo Alto Chamber
Polls suggest that most Palo Alto voters will probably support a November measure to raise the city's hotel-tax rate to pay for a host of infrastructure projects. Winning the approval of merchants and hotel owners, however, is another matter, as a Wednesday debate on the proposed tax hike demonstrated.[Wednesday, June 4, 2014]
With Caltrain in mind, Palo Alto seeks larger sales-tax hike
Palo Alto's support for a countywide sales-tax increase to pay for an extension of BART and a host of other transportation projects could hinge on a single question: What's in it for Caltrain? In a letter approved Wednesday, city officials argued that Caltrain should get more funding from the county, even if it means a larger tax bump.[Wednesday, June 4, 2014]
Nancy Shepherd to seek reelection
Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd announced Wednesday that she plans to run for re-election in the City Council race this November, becoming the second incumbent to seek a fresh term.[Wednesday, June 4, 2014]
Plan to widen El Camino sidewalks falters
Faced with an uprising from property owners, conflicting recommendations from its advisory boards and deep ambivalence within its own ranks, the City Council on Monday night backed away from a staff proposal to revise the sidewalk rules on Palo Alto's congested and eclectic stretch of El Camino Real.[Tuesday, June 3, 2014]
Tom DuBois enters race for City Council
Tom DuBois, a Midtown resident who jumped into Palo Alto's land-use politics during last year's heated battle over a housing development on Maybell Avenue, announced Monday that he will seek a seat on the City Council in November.[Monday, June 2, 2014]
Audit finds flaws in Palo Alto's refuse bills
Dozens of Palo Alto's refuse customers have received inaccurate bills for trash pick-up services because of discrepancies in the data used by the city and its hauler, a new audit from the Office of City Auditor has found.[Saturday, May 31, 2014]