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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 fails to find compromise in compost debate
After a brief respite, Palo Alto's leading environmentalists are once again clashing over the future of local composting -- a debate that brought a crowd to Tuesday's City Council meeting. With no compromise in sight, the council agreed to defer a decision to a later date.[Tuesday, April 29, 2014]
Palo Alto Housing Corporation sells Maybell site
After seeings its plan for a housing complex on Maybell Avenue collapse in a referendum last November, the Palo Alto Housing Corporation has completed the sale of the 2.46-acre site to a Cupertino-based buyer, Golden Gate Homes LLC, county records show.[Tuesday, April 29, 2014]
Palo Alto panel tackles housing issues
Affordable housing in Palo Alto is not only an urgent need but also a virtual oxymoron and a subject heated enough to spark a citizen referendum last November. It was also the focus of a community meeting Monday, the second event in the city's "Our Palo Alto" initiative.[Monday, April 28, 2014]
Gail Price not to seek second council term
Palo Alto City Councilwoman Gail Price announced today that she will not seek a second term on the council in November.[Friday, April 25, 2014]
Proponents of Baylands compost plant not sold on new city proposal
With Palo Alto preparing to debate the future of composting on Tuesday night, several environmental advocates are asking the city to tread cautiously on staff's new proposal for a four-phased approach toward treating organic waste.[Thursday, April 24, 2014]
Business registry proposed in Palo Alto
With offices filling up in downtown Palo Alto and parking shortages spurring tension between employees and residents, city officials are proposing to start a business-registry program that they hope will help them solve the growing problem.[Thursday, April 24, 2014]
Years after divisive vote, Palo Alto proposes sharp shift on composting
Palo Alto's contentious plan to build a Baylands facility for turning food, yard and other waste into energy is about to take a radical turn as the city prepares to toss aside the proposals it has received from the private sector and assume a more central role in building and managing its composting operation.[Thursday, April 24, 2014]
'Our Palo Alto' launches with lessons in local demographics
An attempt by Palo Alto officials to get out of City Hall and engage residents in a two-year conversation about the future launched on a hopeful note Wednesday night, with a standing-room only crowd packing into the Downtown Library to hear a panel of experts take up the question: Who are we?[Thursday, April 24, 2014]
Ban on feeding wildlife advances in Palo Alto
After years of encouraging residents not to feed animals at local parks and nature preserves, Palo Alto officials are preparing to institute a ban on the practice.[Tuesday, April 22, 2014]
Palo Alto raises fresh concerns about Caltrain electrification
After years of talking about the benefits of a "modernized" Caltrain system, Palo Alto officials on Monday turned their attention to the thorny impacts of the project, which include downed trees, traffic impacts and a new power station that officials say would bring a new eyesore to the Greenmeadow neighborhood.[Tuesday, April 22, 2014]