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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
Planned bike route on Matadero wins key vote
Palo Alto's ambitious quest to become the nation's top biking city received a boost Wednesday night when the city's planning commission green-lighted the creation of a new bike boulevard on Matadero Avenue.[Thursday, February 13, 2014]
New vision for California Avenue advances
As Palo Alto prepares for a physical transformation of California Avenue, city planners are advancing a new vision document for the dynamic and eclectic area -- a plan that they hope will spur more high-tech startups, smaller apartments and higher density near transit hubs.[Wednesday, February 12, 2014]
Hotel-tax hike recommended in Palo Alto
Seeking to tap into the riches generated by the city's flourishing hotel scene, a Palo Alto council committee on Wednesday recommended asking voters to raise the hotel-tax rate by 3 percent, which would make the city's rate one of the highest in the state.[Wednesday, February 12, 2014]
Suspect sought in Ventura groping
Palo Alto police on Tuesday searched a section of the Ventura neighborhood for a man who allegedly made a lewd comment to a passing pedestrian and then grabbed her from behind.[Wednesday, February 12, 2014]
Shepherd zooms in on growth impacts in 'State of the City'
Citing a climate of rapid growth that leaves many residents feeling like change is happening "too much, too fast," Mayor Nancy Shepherd used her "State of the City" address on Tuesday to lay out the city's efforts for addressing the lingering frustrations that come with Palo Alto's economic prosperity.[Tuesday, February 11, 2014]
New proposal to treat city's waste takes aim at sewage
Palo Alto may still be years away from building a state-of-the-art facility to process local food waste and yard trimmings, but officials are preparing to pick up the pace when it comes to dealing with sewage sludge, the third stream in the city's complex waste flow.[Tuesday, February 11, 2014]
Funding questions loom over high-speed rail's new plan
Seeking to comply with a legislative requirement, the agency charged with building California's high-speed-rail system on Monday released an updated business plan that offers upgraded ridership projections, revised construction plans and very few answers on the critical question of how the system will be funded.[Tuesday, February 11, 2014]
Palo Alto treads carefully on new garages
Faced with a citizenry upset about downtown's deepening parking shortages and businesses anxious about looming parking restrictions, Palo Alto officials struggled on Monday with the complex topic of new downtown garages.[Tuesday, February 11, 2014]
Price walks fine line in supporting high-speed-rail brief
Palo Alto may be one of staunchest opponents of California's proposed high-speed rail system, but one council member took a small step in favor of the $68-billion project when she voted last week in favor of a brief in support of the agency building the controversial train line.[Monday, February 10, 2014]
Palo Alto to weigh differing visions for composting
More than a year after Palo Alto voters approved a plan to set aside 10 acres in the Baylands for a possible composting plant, the future of waste management remains very much up in the air, with three companies proposing disparate visions for disposing of local food scraps, yard trimmings and biosolid waste.[Thursday, February 6, 2014]