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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
Funding challenges cloud high-speed rail's future
With California's high-speed rail system preparing for a groundbreaking in Central Valley, the fate of the $68-billion project remains clouded by allegations that the agency charged with building it has violated state law -- an argument that was at the heart of a Friday court hearing in Sacramento.[Tuesday, November 12, 2013]
Modernist building faces citizen appeal
Downtown resident Douglas Smith, a fan of Spanish-style arcades, ornate awnings and other traditional decorative flourishes, fired the latest salvo this week against architectural minimalism and modernity when he submitted an appeal of a freshly approved four-story development on 636 Waverley St.[Friday, November 8, 2013]
After resounding defeat, the lessons of Maybell
The emphatic victory of the anti-Measure D campaign leaves plenty of lingering questions that won't be answered for months, if not years.[Friday, November 8, 2013]
Many mail-ins, little drama in Palo Alto election
The fire station on Arastradero Road in Palo Alto had all the trappings of a precinct on Election Day on Tuesday -- a table staffed with poll workers, stacks of ballots, checklists and registries. The only thing that was missing was the voters.[Wednesday, November 6, 2013]
Voters shoot down Maybell development
A grassroots campaign in Palo Alto to overturn an approved housing development on Maybell Avenue scored a sweeping Election Day victory Tuesday night, winning by more than 1,000 votes.[Tuesday, November 5, 2013]
Dish parking plan irks residents
With plans afoot to expand the trail network near the Stanford Dish, dozens of residents who frequent the scenic hiking hub are lashing out against one aspect of the plan -- the transfer of parking spaces from Stanford Avenue to a site more than half a mile away from the main entrance.[Tuesday, November 5, 2013]
Caltrain trenching study wins green light
Declining to stand idle while change arrives along the Caltrain corridor, Palo Alto officials on Monday agreed to commission a study that would evaluate the cost of digging a trench for trains in the southern half of the city.[Tuesday, November 5, 2013]
Ruling paves the way for California Avenue renovation
Palo Alto's plan to shrink California Avenue from four lanes to two cleared its final legal hurdle Thursday when a California Court of Appeals judge dismissed a lawsuit from critics.[Friday, November 1, 2013]
Palo Alto looks at trench for Caltrain
Commuting by train may be on the rise in job-rich Palo Alto, but when the City Council meets on Monday to discuss the local rail line, its focus will be on burying Caltrain, not praising it.[Friday, November 1, 2013]
City's management lapse may have cost $281,000
Insufficient oversight of a contractor and poor contract management may have resulted in the City of Palo Alto Utilities paying roughly $281,000 more than it should have for underground utilities work, a new audit from the office of Acting City Auditor Houman Boussina has found.[Wednesday, October 30, 2013]