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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
Palo Alto looks to revamp street-sweeping program
Palo Alto's residential streets may soon get a bit leafier under a sweeping change proposed by the city's Public Works Department. The proposal includes reducing the frequency of street-sweeping services in residential areas from once a week to every other week.[Friday, May 30, 2014]
Parking takes center stage in downtown debate
Palo Alto residents and council members routinely lament downtown's worsening parking crisis, but a new study indicates that the area actually has enough spots to accommodate the recent surge in office development.[Thursday, May 29, 2014]
Neighbors protest replacement of Eichler home
A Palo Alto property owner's plan to take down an Eichler home and replace it with a larger two-story residence has touched off a storm of protest from neighbors, who successfully argued that the contrast between the proposed home and the Eichlers around it is much too stark.[Wednesday, May 28, 2014]
Claude Ezran enters Palo Alto's council race
Claude Ezran, a veteran of the Human Relations Commission and the founder of Palo Alto's World Music Day, announced Tuesday that he will seek a seat on the City Council in November.[Tuesday, May 27, 2014]
Stanford housing proposal faces appeal
A proposal by Stanford University to build 180 housing units on California Avenue under a 2005 agreement with the city is now facing an appeal from a nearby resident who is arguing that the approved development violates Palo Alto's fire code.[Tuesday, May 27, 2014]
Transformation proposed for Palo Alto's planning department
If the budget is an indicator of city priorities, Palo Alto's planning department should be a hive of activity in 2015. The City Council's Finance Committee on Tuesday reviewed and tentatively approved the busy department's proposed budget, though at least one council member raised concerns about a planned expansion of shuttle services throughout the city.[Wednesday, May 21, 2014]
Palo Alto voters to weigh in on a smaller council
Palo Alto voters will likely have a chance in November to do something that hasn't been done in more than four decades: change the number of seats on their City Council.[Tuesday, May 20, 2014]
Palo Alto optimistic about infrastructure fixes
Palo Alto's evolving shopping list for infrastructure improvements began to crystalize Tuesday morning as city officials endorsed a funding plan that includes a downtown garage, numerous bike projects and, above all, a new police headquarters.[Tuesday, May 20, 2014]
Palo Alto urges greater Caltrain role in proposed tax measure
Santa Clara County voters may be asked in November to support a sales-tax increase that would fund more than $3 billion in transportation projects, ranging from pothole patches and bike improvements to an extension of BART. On Monday, Palo Alto officials argued that the best way to secure the city's support is to devote significant funds toward improving Caltrain.[Tuesday, May 20, 2014]
Survey shows neighborhood support for Buena Vista residents
When residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents packed into Avenidas last week for a three-day hearing on the park's future, they had plenty of company from the broader Barron Park community. A new survey indicates that these supporters were by no means an outlier.[Tuesday, May 20, 2014]