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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
Suspect at large in violent downtown robbery
Palo Alto police are looking for one of three suspects who beat up, robbed and threatened to stab a pedestrian on Hamilton Avenue on Tuesday night.[Wednesday, October 30, 2013]
Palo Alto moves ahead with citywide fiber plan
The good news for Palo Alto's technophiles is that if all goes as planned, construction of a long-sought, citywide ultra-high-speed Internet network could begin by the end of next year. The bad news is that so far, in the city's frustrating slog toward what is known as "Fiber to the Premise," almost nothing has gone as planned.[Wednesday, October 30, 2013]
Palo Alto pulls the plug on proposed billboard
After flickering for just long enough to enrage the public, Palo Alto's plan to install a digital billboard along U.S. Highway 101 quickly fizzled on Monday night.[Tuesday, October 29, 2013]
City still unsure about 2014 ballot measure
Faced with a long wish list, a tight deadline and disagreements within its own ranks, the Palo Alto City Council agreed on Monday to conduct more polls before making any decisions on a 2014 ballot measure to pay for infrastructure fixes.[Tuesday, October 29, 2013]
New 'planned community' battles loom in Palo Alto
With residents in Barron Park and Green Acres up in arms against a planned housing complex on Maybell Avenue, their counterparts in Evergreen Park, Ventura and other neighborhoods around the city's center are preparing for their own battles against dense development eyed for their backyards.[Saturday, October 26, 2013]
Measure D opponents hang tough in cash battle
With Election Day just around the corner, the nonprofit looking to build a bitterly contested housing development on Maybell Avenue has further widened its fundraising lead over the project's opponents by injecting another $60,000 into its political campaign.[Friday, October 25, 2013]
Palo Alto seeks regional representation
Many of the regional transportation and planning agencies that make broad decisions affecting cities like Palo Alto are headed by boards of directors composed of elected leaders from stakeholder jurisdictions. Although Palo Alto is a major stakeholder, in most cases the city is excluded from the decision-making process.[Friday, October 25, 2013]
Palo Alto ponders a digital billboard
When Palo Alto leaders talk about building a "leading digital city," they're usually talking about open data and high-speed Internet, not flashy billboards. Monday night will be an exception.[Thursday, October 24, 2013]
Buena Vista owner hits another snag
The owner of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park must go back and further revise his plan for compensating the residents who would be displaced under a plan to convert Buena Vista to a dense apartment complex, Palo Alto's city attorney has ruled.[Wednesday, October 23, 2013]
City strikes down parking exemptions
Caught in a tug of war between angry residents and pleading developers, Palo Alto officials sided with the former on Monday night and agreed to strike from the city's books a list of provisions that have long allowed downtown builders to "underpark" their projects.[Monday, October 21, 2013]