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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
Jay Paul withdraws plan for office complex, police HQ
The Jay Paul Company has withdrawn its proposal to build an office complex at 395 Page Mill Road and a new police headquarters for the city, a move that effectively kills the largest, most complex and most controversial development in the city's crowded pipeline.[Thursday, December 19, 2013]
Tesla wins approval for new signs
Three days after Palo Alto officials approved a large, illuminated sign for the Grocery Outlet store at Alma Village, the city's architectural board granted another sign exemption to a local company whose brand is all too well known.[Thursday, December 19, 2013]
Stanford is shopping for firefighting service
Stanford University is looking around for a new provider of firefighting services, a move that could transform or even end the university's nearly four-decade-long relationship with the Palo Alto Fire Department.[Thursday, December 19, 2013]
Fire Department braces for retirement wave
More than a dozen Palo Alto firefighters, including many in leadership positions, are expected to retire in the next year or two, prompting the department to ramp up its succession planning, Fire Chief Eric Nickel told a City Council committee Tuesday night.[Wednesday, December 18, 2013]
Palo Alto in no hurry to recoup Maybell loan
Palo Alto's plan to bring an affordable-housing complex to a Maybell Avenue orchard may have dissolved on Election Day, but the city is in no rush to recoup the money it loaned to the developer.[Tuesday, December 17, 2013]
Giant sign approved for new Alma Plaza grocer
For decades, Alma Plaza in Palo Alto has served as a graveyard for grocers' dreams. On Monday, the City Council sent the community a glaring sign that it plans to change that.[Tuesday, December 17, 2013]
Modernist building on Waverley survives appeal
An eclectic block of Waverley Street is about to get an infusion of glass-and-concrete modernism, a development that has downtown's brick-and-stucco traditionalists fuming.[Tuesday, December 17, 2013]
Car-camping ban suspended for a year
Faced with citizen anxieties, threatened lawsuits and a pending court case in southern California, Palo Alto officials agreed on Monday to delay for a year the city's deeply controversial ban on vehicle habitation.[Tuesday, December 17, 2013]
City looks to protect merchants during California Avenue construction
With California Avenue's long-awaited renovation set to begin in about a month, city officials are considering ways to support businesses and shuttle customers while construction is in progress.[Monday, December 16, 2013]
Restaurants, techies spur boom on California Avenue
As Palo Alto officials prepare to give California Avenue an extreme makeover, the arty, eclectic and under-maintained thoroughfare has been quietly undergoing an economic resurgence.[Friday, December 6, 2013]