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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 cautious about expanding grant program
Palo Alto may be in the midst of a revenue boom, but officials are in no rush to share the newfound wealth with local nonprofits. Instead, a divided City Council voted Monday to keep the city's grant increases modest, pending further discussion.[Tuesday, May 20, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to narrow down its infrastructure priorities
As Palo Alto marches toward placing a hotel-tax increase on the November ballot, city officials are still trying to figure out exactly what to buy with the revenues, should the measure prevail.[Friday, May 16, 2014]
New condos planned for El Camino site
A pair of three-story buildings that are slated to go up on a vacant lot in the Barron Park neighborhood have some area residents fretting about the visual impacts and proposed density of the El Camino Real development.[Thursday, May 15, 2014]
Palo Alto joins effort to reform Prop. 13
Palo Alto became the latest California city on Monday to officially come out in favor of reforming Proposition 13, though some City Council members argued that the resolution currently on the table isn't going far enough.[Wednesday, May 14, 2014]
Palo Alto moves to make new buildings electric-vehicle friendly
Seeking to get ahead of an expected and desired electric-vehicle revolution, Palo Alto officials on Tuesday endorsed a new law that requires builders of new developments to go along for the ride.[Wednesday, May 14, 2014]
Palo Alto looks to cameras for traffic data
Seeking to gather more data about local bicyclists and pedestrians, Palo Alto has installed dozens of cameras around the city, prompting citizens' concerns about privacy.[Tuesday, May 13, 2014]
Palo Alto ponders changes to term limits, council seats
A proposal to cut the number of seats on the Palo Alto City Council continued to gather momentum on Monday night when Councilman Pat Burt joined three of his colleagues in offering tentative support for the change.[Tuesday, May 13, 2014]
Palo Alto moves ahead with organic-waste plan
Palo Alto's convoluted and contentious debate over organic waste trudged toward a hard-won compromise Monday night when city officials adopted a new road map for processing local sewage sludge, food scraps and yard trimmings.[Tuesday, May 13, 2014]
Palo Alto may take stance against Prop. 13
Palo Alto officials may soon join their counterparts in Berkeley, Oakland and Burlingame tonight in taking a formal stance against Proposition 13, the 1978 measure that capped property taxes at 1 percent of assessed value.[Monday, May 12, 2014]
Palo Alto eyes expanded electric-vehicle requirements
Palo Alto's enthusiastic efforts to promote electric vehicles could receive another jolt Tuesday night, when a City Council committee considers a new law requiring all new non-residential developments and multi-family housing complexes to accommodate charging stations.[Friday, May 9, 2014]